Build Skeleton React and UI5 Projects

In this step, you will create a React skeleton project which will be used to create your Luigi app.

1. Open a Terminal or Command Prompt window and navigate to the space where you want to install the app. Then create a new folder:

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   mkdir luigi-react-ui5
   cd luigi-react-ui5

2. Create a new folder to host the React core app:

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   mkdir react-core-mf
   cd react-core-mf

3. Download the React example package JSON file containing minimal dependencies required for a React app. Next, install styling libraries to handle CSS files, as well as Fundamentals and React web components packages.

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   curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SAP/luigi/main/core/examples/luigi-example-react/package.json > package.json
   npm install fundamental-styles @ui5/webcomponents-react --save
   npm install style-loader css-loader --save-dev

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4. The React application will be bundled using Webpack. Download the Luigi Webpack configuration from an existing Luigi example app using the line below:

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    curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SAP/luigi/main/core/examples/luigi-example-react/webpack.config.js > webpack.config.js

5. Next, create the project structure for the React app. Create the following folders:

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   mkdir -p src/views
   mkdir -p src/assets
   mkdir -p public

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6. Download the Luigi React app files:

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   curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SAP/luigi/main/core/examples/luigi-example-react/public/luigi-config.js > public/luigi-config.js
   curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SAP/luigi/main/core/examples/luigi-example-react/src/views/home.js > src/views/home.js
   curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SAP/luigi/main/core/examples/luigi-example-react/src/views/sample1.js > src/views/sample1.js
   curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SAP/luigi/main/core/examples/luigi-example-react/src/views/sample1.js > src/views/sample2.js
   curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SAP/luigi/main/core/examples/luigi-example-react/public/index.html > public/index.html
   curl https://github.com/luigi-project/luigi/blob/main/core/examples/luigi-example-react/public/sampleapp.html > public/sampleapp.html

7. Ins​tall and run the configuration:

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   npm i
   npm run start

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8. Move back into the root directory:

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   cd ..

In this step, you will create a skeleton UI5 project for your UI5 micro-frontend.

1. If you didn’t already, navigate to the root folder of your project in the terminal.

2. Create a new folder:

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   mkdir ui5-mf && cd ui5-mf

3. Install the UI5 project generator:

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   npm install -g yo generator-easy-ui5

4. Enter this command in the Terminal/Command Prompt:

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   yo easy-ui5

5. Use the settings shown in the screenshot below. For “Select your generator”, use the arrow keys to scroll down and select app. For the questions “Which framework do you want to use?” and “Who is the author of this application?”, choose the default option and press Enter.