Develop an App

Initialize the Project

Init app

Use the appcfg init command to initialize a new project.

appcfg init --app-name <your_app_name> --author <your_author_identifier> --description "<your_app_description>"

• --app-name (required): A unique name for your application (e.g., tutorial, my-first-app).
• --author (required): Your author identifier (e.g., yourcompany.com, yourname).
• --description (required): A brief description of your application. Enclose the description in quotes if it contains spaces.

Example:

appcfg init --app-name my-test-app --author mycompany.com --description "My test Gladly application"

(Optional) Set the GLADLY_APP_CFG_ROOT Environment Variable

The appcfg init command outputs the GLADLY_APP_CFG_ROOT value, which is the root directory of your newly created project.

1. Copy the GLADLY_APP_CFG_ROOT value from the output of the appcfg init command.

2. Set the environment variable:

export GLADLY_APP_CFG_ROOT=<your_GLADLY_APP_CFG_ROOT_value>

Example:

export GLADLY_APP_CFG_ROOT=/Users/ela/gladly/projects/my-test-app

3. Persist the environment variable (important): If you are only actively working on one app! To make this setting permanent, add the export command to your shell's configuration file (~/.zshrc for Zsh, ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile for Bash).

echo 'export GLADLY_APP_CFG_ROOT=<your_GLADLY_APP_CFG_ROOT_value>' >> ~/.zshrc
source ~/.zshrc

Be sure to replace <your_GLADLY_APP_CFG_ROOT_value> with the correct path. This ensures the variable is set every time you open a new terminal session.