Get Ready for UI5-Development on Your Local Machine

Yeoman is an open source scaffolding tool for modern web-apps. It helps you to kickstart new projects, prescribing best practices and tools to help you stay productive.

Install the module globally:

npm install -g yo

In order to use Yeoman to create SAPUI5 projects, we need to install a plugin (another npm module). Yeoman recognizes all plugins automatically on the basis of the generator- prefix of the module:

npm install -g generator-easy-ui5

The source code for this plugin is available on GitHub - feel free to open issues and/or contribute.

Use the following command to test whether the installation has been successful:

yo

You should see the easy-ui5 generator in the list of generators:

In Cloud Foundry, applications are usually being shipped as so called mta archives. The Multi-target Application Archive Builder is a standalone command-line tool that builds a deployment-ready multi-target application archive .mtar file. You can leverage npm to install this tool as well:

npm install -g mbt

Run mbt --help to see all available commands.

You might be able to skip this step. Usually, users of unix-based operating systems already have make preinstalled. You can verify that make is installed by running the following command:

make -v

If make is not already installed on your machine (maybe you are on a Windows), run the following command (or follow these instructions):

choco install make