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.
bm forms init is ran to initialise the project, which will set up your blinkmrc.json file.
You will prompted to answer a handful of questions, the first asking the source of your forms definition. This will either be the answerSpace form, or your own JSON definition.
The following question will ask for the location of this definition. This will either be the answerSpace URL, or the location of the JSON definition files within your project folder.
You'll then be prompted for 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).
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.jsonNext Step
Create & Build: Creating the Library Source and Building the Distribution File