Re: [Exist-open] Don't Have "New Application" Option

[David B. <dj...@gm...>]

Dear eXist-db list,

A light-weight script that initializes a new eXist-db app without relying
on Node is available at
https://github.com/Pittsburgh-NEH-Institute/eXistentializer. It achieves
its relative ease of use by omitting many features supported by
generator-exist, such as testing (limited support), CI (no support), and
Docker (no support).

Best,

David

On Thu, May 30, 2024 at 11:50 AM Joshua Schäuble <jos...@gm...>
wrote:

> Tldr: Just to add a +1 to this topic, I'm agreeing here, too.
>
> Long version: When the integrated app creation tool  was removed 2y ago,
> it took me hours to get the recommended npm package to run, repeatedly
> getting stuck in NPMs dependency overhead hell. Once it finally ran without
> any errors, I still ended up with a package that did not install in the
> (then latest) eXist. I tried several times over the past years and so far I
> never managed to produce a working app with this (fair enough, I'm rarely
> asking for support, always thinking I'm the idiot).
>
> Sure, npm has been a standard for quite a while now and there are probably
> good reasons not to use the old integrated legacy app creation tool - but
> it's somewhat off putting for non-Node developers to download and run an
> overhead of hundreds of megabytes of npm dependencies, just to produce a
> comparable tiny app scaffold (that then won't even install).
>
> So I opted for the same workaround described here before: I installed a
> legacy version of eXist just to create an app scaffold - and then
> downloaded and installed it on the latest version  (worrying it might be
> insecure, but at least it runs). While this still works smoothly to this
> date, it lead to me not using exist much for app development anymore, but
> only as a database via the REST API. Maybe that's for the better anyways.
>
> -- end of long version
>
>
> Nick Sincaglia <nsi...@nu...> schrieb am Do., 30. Mai 2024,
> 15:48:
>
>> I agree. That app builder was pretty handy. We continue to run an old
>> version of eXist-db just for this purpose. We will create new apps using
>> this old version and download the XAR package and install it on the newer
>> versions of eXist-db we run in production.
>>
>> Nick
>>
>> On 5/30/24 1:38 AM, Michael Pilarski wrote:
>>
>> Hi Don,
>>
>> please see Joe's answer to this topic at
>> https://stackoverflow.com/a/70189542.
>>
>> Michael
>>
>> Am Do., 30. Mai 2024 um 01:43 Uhr schrieb John Reed <jr...@gm...>:
>>
>>> I believe that no longer is available with a later version because of
>>> some kind of security problem. I would like that back. It was great to be
>>> able to create an app without really thinking about it and just building on
>>> top of what was there. I wish they would put it back in the later version.
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>> On May 29, 2024, at 4:36 PM, Don Smith via Exist-open <
>>> exi...@li...> wrote:
>>>
>>> 
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>> I've just installed eXist 6.2.0 on Windows 11.
>>>
>>> * The DB is running
>>> * I'm logged in as Admin (eXide shows "Logged in as Admin")
>>>
>>> In eXide, when I click on "Application" there is no "New Application"
>>> option available. The only menu options I see are:
>>>
>>> * Download app
>>> * Synchronize
>>> * Live reload
>>>
>>> I assume that something has gone wrong in the install but ??
>>>
>>> I've looked through the Packages that are available to install and don't
>>> see anything there that looks like what I need. Is it possible the option
>>> has moved to a different location in 6.0.2? Is there another way to
>>> create a new application?
>>>
>>> Any help is appreciated as this appears to be a complete show stopper
>>> (can't create new applications).
>>>
>>> Don
>>>
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