create-empirica-app

create-empirica-app

The easy way to create an Empirica app.

Quick Start

npx create-empirica-app my-experiment
cd my-experiment
meteor

Then open http://localhost:3000/ to see your experiment.

Creating an App (more details)

You’ll need to have Node >= 8 on your local development machine.
To create a new app, you may choose one of the following methods:

npx

npx create-empirica-app my-experiment

(npx comes with npm 5.2+ and higher, see instructions for older npm versions)

npm

npm init empirica-app my-experiment

npm init <initializer> is available in npm 6+

Yarn

yarn create empirica-app my-experiment

yarn create is available in Yarn 0.25+

It will create a directory called my-experiment inside the current folder.
Inside that directory, it will generate the initial project structure and install the transitive dependencies:

my-experiment
├── .meteor
├── README.md
├── node_modules
├── package.json
├── .gitignore
├── public
├── client
│   ├── client.html
│   ├── client.css
│   └── client.js
└── server
    └── server.js

No configuration or complicated folder structures, just the files you need to build your app.
Once the installation is done, you can open your project folder:

cd my-experiment

Inside the newly created project, you can run the standard meteor command to start you app locally:

meteor

Runs the app in development mode.
Open http://localhost:3000 to view it in the browser.

The page will automatically reload if you make changes to the code.
You will see the build errors and lint warnings in the console.