How to create app

Each app type has a specific process to create.

There are several types of apps: community, custom or external.

Custom apps

Let's start with creating a custom app. This is the easiest process.

A custom app is located in ./src/apps folder in your Hubleto project folder. For example, if you installed your Hubleto in /var/www/html/hubleto, then your custom apps will be located in /var/www/html/hubleto/src/apps.

NOTE Custom apps are project-specific. This means they are created for the single project and if you want to reuse them, you only can make a hard-copy of the original app into a new project. So, contrary to external apps, custom apps cannot be managed by a package manager (a composer).

Create custom app

To create a custom app, run following commands:

cd /path/to/your/hubleto
php hubleto create app MyCustomApp

This will create a set of files and folders in /path/to/your/hubleto/src/apps/MyCustomApp folder.

Once created, you must install the app.

External apps

External apps have one significan advantage over custom apps - they can be bundled as a package and included into a project using composer.

This allows external apps to be easily reused among different Hubleto projects.

However, creating an external app is a bit more complicated. The most straightforward way is following:

#	Step
1	Create a custom app using `php hubleto create app` command.
2	Implement app's functionality and test it inside your Hubleto project.
3	Once tested, prepare the github repository for your new app.
4	Move your app to this repository, under the `src` folder and manually change all namespaces from `HubletoApp\Custom\MyFirstApp` to `HubletoApp\External\MyFirstApp`.
5	Publish the app.

Steps to create external app.

Folder structure of an external app should be similar to this:

Example of folder structure for an external app

./ # clone of the github repository of your app
│ src/
│ ├─ Components/
│ ├─ Controllers/
│ ├─ Models/
│ ├─ Views/
│ ├─ Loader.php
│ ├─ Loader.tsx
│ └─ manifest.yaml
├─ src/
├─ composer.json
└─ README.md

Community apps

Community apps are bundled with the Hubleto projects. They are located in vendor/hubleto/erp/apps.

These apps are developed by the Hubleto contributors. If you want to contribute, join us.