SAP HANA Native, Create a SAP Cloud Application Programming Model project

Log into SAP Web IDE.

The default URL for SAP Web IDE in SAP HANA, express edition is https://hxehost:53075. The default user is XSA_DEV

Right-click on Workspace and select New-> Project from Template

Choose SAP Cloud Platform Business Application and click Next. (You may have to change the environment option in the wizard to Cloud Foundry if you are using the SAP Web IDE Full-stack)

Use the following name for your project and click Next

MyHANAApp

This name will be used in different steps. It is recommended that you do not change it unless you remember to replace it in future tasks.

Choose Node.js as the service module and click Finish

The wizard has generated a Multi-target Application with two modules: a database module and a service module. Expand them to familiarize yourself with the basic folder structure.

The wizard has also populated the mta.yaml configuration file with the necessary dependencies and parameters for each module. Open it in the code editor to explore it.

This file is the deployment descriptor and it is the glue that keeps all the micro-services together as a single application throughout its lifecycle. It declares the modules (applications or micro-services) and their dependencies with other micro-services or backing services. You can also use this file to inject variables into the environment variable VCAP_SERVICES of your application.

This file is very sensitive to indentation and does not allow for tabs.

You will use the local Git repository for basic version management.

Right-click on the project and choose Git -> Initialize Local Repository.

You will be asked for an email address and user ID for a remote GitHub server. You can enter bogus values if you do not have an account in a remote GitHub repository.

After a few seconds, you will see a success message in the top-right corner. Use the Git icon next to it to open the Git pane.

Each time you commit to the local or remote repository, you create a version. This will allow you to revert and compare any changes.
It is recommended that you perform commits at the end of each tutorial.

Add a commit message and click Commit:

It is recommended to set a remote repository in, for example, GitHub. This will allow you to have a copy of your code outside your SAP HANA instance.

Click the console icon and look at the messages to complete the validation below.