Playlistr: Setup

To get started you'll need CommandBox installed and MySQL as your database.

CommandBox

The best way to get started with a ColdBox application is to fire up CommandBox in your terminal, command line or shell.

cd into the directory you want to build the app in. We've chosen playlistr
Fire up CommandBox
Install the ColdBox framework
Create a skeleton ColdBox app
Then we need to install the CommandBox module commandbox-migrations to help us with the creation of our database tables.
To allow commandbox-migrations to interact with your database we need to tell it where it is and how to connect to it. We use a local .env file for that purpose. The module commandbox-dotenv provides that support so we need to install that as well. More on our .env file later.

$ mkdir playlistr
$ cd playlistr
$ box


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/ /   / __ \/ __ `__ \/ __ `__ \/ __ `/ __ \/ __  / __  / __ \| |/_/
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\____/\____/_/ /_/ /_/_/ /_/ /_/\__,_/_/ /_/\__,_/_____/\____/_/|_| (R)  v4.0.0+01015

Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind.

Welcome to CommandBox!
CommandBox:playlistr>install coldbox
CommandBox:playlistr>coldbox create app playlistr
CommandBox:playlistr>install commandbox-migrations
CommandBox:playlistr>install commandbox-dotenv

In addition to this description of the process there is a GitHub repository of the code needed to reproduce this product. To be able to follow along in stages there are a number of branch releases. Each branch will be highlighted in this documentation like so:

Note: By default the ColdBox skeleton apps gitignore the framework and modules directories. Therefore when you checkout a branch release remember to install --force to pull down and install all the dependencies that are in the box.json at that point.

Branch: stage/v0.0.1-base-install

Prerequisites

CommandBox Migrations