Quick Creation of a new Grove project:

The commands listed below should be typed into a terminal/console window.

1. Check Prerequisites

MarkLogic: If you have not yet done so, install MarkLogic 9 or 10, start it, and initialize it at localhost:8001.
Node.js: Check if you have Node.js version 10.16.0 or above installed by running node -v. If not, install Node.js.
npm: Check if you have npm version 6.9.0 or above installed by running npm -v. If not, run npm install -g npm to get the latest.
Git: The grove-cli requires git. Check if you have git installed by running git --version. If not, install Git.
Java: (If you are an advanced user and know that you do not plan to use the included ml-gradle deployer, you can skip the Java requirement.) Check if you have Java 1.8 or above installed by running java -version. If not, install Java 1.8. Java is required because the generated Grove project will use ml-gradle to administer MarkLogic and mlcp to load data.

2. Install the grove-cli

The grove-cli is the best way to install and configure new Grove Projects. Run the following to install the grove-cli:

npm install -g @marklogic-community/grove-cli

This makes the grove command available on your command-line.

3. Generate a new Project:

grove new your-project-name

Answer the questions in the prompts in order to select the React or Vue UI, as desired.

cd your-project-name

4. Configure your project:

grove config

This command will update settings in your React or Vue UI, Node middle-tier, and the provided ml-gradle project. It is helpful to use the grove-cli for this task, so the configuration is the same for all parts of your project.

5. OPTIONAL: Provision MarkLogic

We provide an ml-gradle configuration that matches your Grove settings as a convenience in the marklogic directory of your generated Project. You can also just point Grove at an existing MarkLogic app server using the grove config command. If you are running alongside the DataHub Framework, take a look at the notes in Grove and Data Hub Framework.

cd marklogic
./gradlew mlDeploy
cd ..

Or, on Windows:

cd marklogic
gradlew.bat mlDeploy
cd ..

6. Install npm dependencies

Run from the top-level of your generated Project:

npm install

7. Start development servers to run your Grove Project

Run from the top-level of your generated Project:

npm start

8. Optional: Load sample data

This command uses ml-gradle and mlcp to load 3000 sample json documents, about people. These documents are stored in the marklogic/data directory of this source code.

This Template includes ml-gradle in the marklogic directory. You must be in that directory to invoke ml-gradle commands.

cd marklogic
./gradlew loadSampleData
cd ..

Or, on Windows:

cd marklogic
gradlew.bat loadSampleData
cd ..

Next Steps

If you have created a React UI, see the React Developers Guide for information.

VERY Quick Start

This sections leverages the grove demo command, which is designed for limited use cases. In most cases, it is not appropriate for normal Project development. But, if all prerequisites are in place, it will quickly start a running Grove Project loaded with sample data.

First, start MarkLogic. Then, the following grove-cli command will clone the application source code, create a content database, create a modules database, create a MarkLogic REST server, load sample people data, install the Web app dependencies locally, and start your application.

grove demo your-demo-name

The grove-cli will walk you through the creation of a running Grove project, based on the code in this repository.