We take a quick look at how to use the open-source CMS, Crafter, from cloning its repository, to building an environment, and staring/stopping all services.
Crafter CMS is an open-source content management system for web sites, mobile apps, VR, and more. You can learn more about Crafter here. In this article, you will learn how to build Crafter CMS from source as well as how to start and stop the services. It’s very easy! Thanks to Gradle and a very easy install process, you will be up and running in 3 simple command line operations!
You must have these prerequisites on your system before you begin:
Build all Crafter CMS modules:
You can now point your browser to http: //localhost: 8080/studio and start using Crafter CMS. To get started with your first Crafter CMS experience, you can follow this guide.
You might have noticed that you essentially have two environments built and running: authoring and delivery. Crafter CMS is a decoupled CMS, and that means you have an authoring environment that caters to content creators, and a different environment, delivery, that handles the end-users that use the experience created by the former.
As a developer, you can use an authoring environment for most tasks without the need to run a delivery environment. It’s important to note that delivery essentially runs the same software that’s in authoring except Crafter Studio (the authoring tools) . By default, this project will build both environments unless instructed otherwise.
To start and stop one of the two environments is similar to building/starting/stopping all of them.
