Creating your project
Creating your project template with the Nimbella CLI
With the Nimbella CLI, you can create a project template that you can use to instantly start building your project.
To create a project template, run this command in your command prompt:
After running this command in your command prompt, you will see a message stating your project is now available.
The message is similar to the following text, with your chosen project name replacing the placeholder <project-name>
shown below.
Creating a YAML file for your project
NOTE: What makes Nimbella standout is that you don't need a YAML file for most simple projects. But if you want to customize specific things you are deploying, you can build a .yml
file for it.
To generate a .yml
file when you create a project. Run the command:
The --config
flag tells the CLI to generate a .yml
template you can use for your project. You should see this template inside of your project folder:
Basics of the project structure.
After creating the project folder, you'll see that it contains two folders. A web
folder to add directories and files with static web content and a packages
folder to create serverless functions.
Click here to learn more about the project structure you just created.