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At this stage, if you're happy with your project setup, you're now able to run the bm forms create command. This will create the library source by reading your forms definition and using the templates specified by the plugin you selected in the init step.

This command will build the library automatically, however you can prevent this command from building so that you're able to edit the source files/templates first, should you require further customisation. we've included the --no-build flag for this purpose.


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When running the command, you have the following two options:

Will create and build your library source


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bm forms create


Will create your library without building or compiling your code


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bm forms create --no-build



Now that you've built your library source, you can look tweaking your templates to customise your output.


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We recommend running bm forms create before editing the templates so you can see what a default form will look like.


Templates

my-forms/templates contains templates used by the transforms in the plugin. You can modify them to include any html/javascript you want, and commit them to your own version control for future reusability.

For more information on editing the templates, see the template documentation.

Re-Building Your Source Code

If you have modified your source files after this process, you will need to run the build command again. This will build out the library from the source folder:

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bm forms build



It is important to note that bm forms create will overwrite anything in the sourcePath folder. If you have modified anything in the sourcePath folder, running bm forms create will remove it.

Final Project Layout Example

If you've followed through these steps, you will now have my-forms/src and my-forms/dist :

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|--my-project/
|  |--.git/
|  |--node_modules/
|  |--my-forms/
|  |  |--dist
|  |  |--src
|  |  |--templates/
|  |--.blinkmrc.json
|  |--package.json


Depending on the framework plugin used, the my-forms/dist/ folder will contain your form components. 

Further Steps

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