Forms: Init

A few steps should be taken by the developer before running the initial bm forms init command:

Start with a folder for your project, and inside that create a folder to hold the forms components.
Within the command line, cd into your project folder and run npm init. This will setup your package.json file.

Initialising the Builder Properties

bm forms init

This will initialise the project, which will set up your blinkmrc.json file.

You will prompted to answer a handful of questions:

Source of your forms definition

This will either be the answerSpace form, or your own JSON definition.

Location of this definition

This will either be the answerSpace URL, or the location of the JSON definition files within your project folder.

Location of the output folders

This is the location of the folders you want to write both your source components and component distribution file too, as well as where the framework templates will be created. If you use the defaults, these will be bm-forms-src, dist and templates (only the templates folder will be created initially, until the bm forms create and build steps are ran later).

Framework plugin to use

Finally, you'll be asked which framework plugin you wish to use. AngularJS and JSON are currently included by default. Later, we'll talk more about how you can use your own custom Forms CLI plugins.

If the defaults are used, you should end up with a folder structure that matches the following:

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

Next Step

Create & Build: Creating the Library Source and Building the Distribution File