Beginner
Create an SAPUI5 App from the Command Line
2020-01-17
20 min.
Create and test a newly created SAPUI5 app on you local machine with the editor of your choice.
You will learn
- How to scaffold an SAPUI5 project
- How to leverage the ui5-tooling to test the app locally
- How to build a multi-target application archive archive
- How to deploy a SAPUI5 web-app to Cloud Foundry
Step 1: Scaffold a SAPUI5 project
Run the following command to trigger the creation of a new project.
yo easy-ui5
Choose the following responses for the prompted parameters.
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| On which platform would you like to host the application | Application Router @ Cloud Foundry |
| Where should your UI5 libs be served from? | Content delivery network (SAPUI5) |
| Would you like to create a new directory for the project? | Yes |
| Would you like to create a new directory for the project? | myUI5App |
| Which namespace do you want to use? | com.myorg |
| Which view type do you want to use? | XML |
| How do you want to name your main view? | MainView |
The following installation of the project’s dependencies might take a while.
Step 2: Inspect the generated code
Let’s have a look at the generated code. Go to the newly created directory and open the code with your favorite editor (here Visual Studio Code).
cd com.myorg.myUI5App/
code .
You can see that the wizard created a bunch of folders and files.
The main code for the SAPUI5 app can be found in the directory webapp. You might miss the folders dist and mta_archieves as they will be created later during the build step.
The package.json file contains many useful information about the project. The npm scripts are especially interesting, since they wrap the command we’ll use later.
Step 3: Test the web-app locally
This project leverages the UI5 tooling framework for development. Among other tasks, this tool belt can help you to start a local web server when you run
npm start
Step 4: Package the MTA archive
Step 5: Deploy the MTA archive
Step 6: Check the status of your app
You can check the status of all running apps in Cloud Foundry with
cf apps
The requested state of your application should read started.
You can also check out the logs of your app via
cf logs <app name>
Step 7: See the app running in the cloud
You can see the URL of your application in the output of the previously executed cf apps command.
Open the URL in the browser to see your app in action:
Congrats, you just deployed your first SAPUI5 app from the command line!