(Quick Reference)
create-app
Purpose
The starting point for Grails. This command creates a Grails application using the name specifed by the user. A subdirectory within the directory the command was executed from is then created based on the specified application name.
Examples
Create an application in a directory that matches the application name:
grails create-app bookstore
cd bookstore
Create an application in the current directory:
mkdir bookstore
cd bookstore
grails create-app --inplace
Create an application customizing the profile and features (since Grails 3.1):
grails create-app bookstore --profile web --features mongodb,asset-pipeline
grails create-app bookstore --profile rest-api --features hibernate
Arguments:
profile - The profile to use to create the applicationfeatures - The features to use when creating the applicationinplace - Whether to create the application within the current directoryskip-wrapper - If set the grailsw wrapper script and support files will not be generated
Description
The
create-app command is responsible for creating an application. By default the command will create an application using the "web" profile. For other available profiles use the
list-profiles and
profile-info commands to find out what profiles are available. For more information on profiles see the
Profiles section of the user guide.
Usage:
grails create-app [name] [--skip-wrapper] [--profile] [profile name] [--features] [FEATURE NAMES]
