Creating a new Volto project
Creating a new Volto project¶
For using Volto for a project (i.e. use Volto as a library), You should use Volto's project generator @plone/generator-volto
. It's a boilerplate generator based in Yeoman that will provide you with the basic files and folder structure to bootstrap a Volto site. In addition to bootstrapping standalone Volto projects, it can also bootstrap Volto addons.
Open a terminal and execute:
$ npm install -g yo @plone/generator-volto
$ yo @plone/volto
Answer to the prompted questions and provide the name of the new app (folder) to be created. For the sake of this documentation, provide
myvoltoproject
as project name then.
Note
You can run the generator with parameters to tailor your requirements.
$ yo @plone/volto --help
or take a look at the README for more information.
Change directory to the newly created folder
myvoltoapp
(or the one you've chosen).
$ cd myvoltoapp
The project is ready to be started,
@plone/generator-volto
already has run the dependencies installations for you.
$ yarn start
will start the development server, compiling and leaving the app ready at: http://localhost:3000