Development and tooling

App Builder

App Builder Available: Liferay CE/DXP 7.3 (deprecated and removed in 7.4) App Builder is a low-code application development solution for Liferay DXP. Build a data model, define the application's...

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Creating the Role Change Request Object

Creating the Role Change Request Object Subscribers Consider a Human Resources application that collects employee requests to change Roles within the software engineering department: the Role...

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Tooling

Tooling Liferay provides a variety of developer tools that include standard build scripting, lightweight CLI utilities, and full IDE based on Eclipse. This is to serve all developers, whether...

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Liferay Workspace

Liferay Workspace Liferay Workspace is a set of folders and Gradle scripts that represents the Liferay-opinionated way of handling a full development life cycle: Creating projects Building...

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How AMD Loader Configuration is Exported

How AMD Loader Configuration is Exported If you don't understand how Liferay AMD Loader works under the hood, please read [Liferay AMD Module Loader](./understanding-bundler-loaders.md) first. ...

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Default Bundler Loaders

Default Bundler Loaders Several loaders are available for the liferay-npm-bundler by default: babel-loader: processes source files with Babel. This avoids an extra build step before the bundler....

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How the Bundler Publishes npm Packages

How the Bundler Publishes npm Packages When you deploy an OSGi bundle with the specified structure, its modules are made available for consumption through canonical URLs. To better illustrate...

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How JavaScript Modules are Formatted for AMD

How JavaScript Modules are Formatted for AMD Liferay AMD Loader is based on the AMD specification. All modules inside an npm OSGi bundle must be in AMD format. This is done for CommonJS modules by...

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Understanding Bundler Configuration Presets

Understanding Bundler Configuration Presets The liferay-npm-bundler comes with a default configuration preset: liferay-npm-bundler-preset-standard. You may omit the liferay-npm-bundler prefix from...

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Liferay npm Bundler

Liferay npm Bundler The liferay-npm-bundler is a bundler (like Webpack or Browserify) that targets Liferay Portal as a platform and assumes you're using your npm packages from widgets (as opposed...

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Running a Test

Running a Test Open the poshi-ext.properties file on your poshi-standalone directory and add the following line, replacing the TestCaseFileName#TestCaseName with the one you created in Creating A...

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Setup

Setup Prerequisites A supported version of Java. Google Chrome. Gradle or Gradle Wrapper 6.6.1 or higher. Setting up the Poshi Standalone Gradle Project Create a new directory, example...

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Syntax Validation

Syntax Validation The Poshi Standalone grade projects includes a validation task that can be used to check your code for syntax errors before running your test. To use this, simply run ./gradlew...

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Understanding Test Results and Debugging Tests

Understanding Test Results and Debugging Tests Poshi tests are run on the terminal or command line. When a test run is completed there are multiple ways to view the test results and diagnose test...

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Poshi Basics

Poshi Basics New features, improvements, and system upgrades can sometimes introduce unexpected behaviors and bugs. Running suites of automated tests is an advantageous method of identifying issues...

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Poshi Advantages

Poshi Advantages Simplified Syntax To make it easier for less technical testers to read and write test automation, Poshi uses a simplified Groovy-like script syntax. It is less wordy than most...

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Poshi Layers

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Using Poshi Resources

Using Poshi Resources Once the Poshi resources jar file is loaded onto your Poshi project, you are now able to use Liferay's commonly used functions, paths, and macros. To distinguish between files...

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Reference

Reference Node Version Information

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Node Version Information

Node Version Information Liferay DXP uses Node (and NPM) for many different frontend components. Specifically, the Liferay Theme Generator and Liferay's JavaScript application tools require the use...

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Using the Bootstrap 3 Compatibility Layer in Liferay 7.4

Using the Bootstrap 3 Compatibility Layer in Liferay 7.4 As of Liferay DXP 7.4 GA1, the Bootstrap 3 compatibility layer is removed from the built-in packages in Liferay frontend applications. If...

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Creating a Workflow Powered Application

Creating a Workflow Powered Application Subscribers Workflow Powered Applications require data from multiple stakeholders. These process-driven applications can go through multiple stages before...

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Deploying WARs (WAB Generator)

Deploying WARs (WAB Generator) You can create applications as Java EE-style Web Application ARchive (WAR) artifacts or as Java ARchive (JAR) OSGi bundle artifacts. Bean Portlets, PortletMVC4Spring...

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JARs Excluded from WABs

JARs Excluded from WABs [Liferay-generated web application bundles (WABs) are stripped of third party JARs that contain packages that Liferay exports already. Deploying the same third party...

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Troubleshooting Blade CLI

Troubleshooting Blade CLI If Blade CLI isn't working as expected, you may find answers here. The blade command is not available in my CLI The Blade CLI installer adds the blade command to your...

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Configuring Liferay Workspace

Configuring Liferay Workspace Liferay Workspace is simple to use, and you can learn the basics by starting at the beginning. If you're happily creating projects, deploying code, or using a Docker...

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Configuring a Liferay Docker Container

Configuring a Liferay Docker Container Creating and deploying containers is an important part of the modern developer workflow. Liferay Workspace makes it easy to use Docker containers both for...

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Creating A Liferay Workspace

Creating A Liferay Workspace You can create a Liferay Workspace manually or with Blade CLI. Creating a Liferay Workspace Manually To create a Liferay Workspace manually, you must have Gradle...

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Creating Code with Liferay Workspace

Creating Code with Liferay Workspace Liferay Workspace is the developer's tool for creating and managing Liferay development projects. Creating Projects Blade CLI makes it easy to create projects...

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Creating Deployment Environments

Creating Deployment Environments There comes a point when your code is ready to share. For that, you must build an environment. In the corporate world, there are usually three environments: ...

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Liferay CLI Tool

Liferay CLI Tool The Liferay CLI tool makes it easy to create Angular, JavaScript, React, shared bundle, or Vue.js projects to interface with Liferay's REST and GraphQL services. Using a liferay...

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Other Tools

Other Tools Liferay CLI Tool Liferay npm Bundler Liferay npm Bundler Understanding Bundler Loaders Changes Between Bundler 1.x and 2.x Default Bundler Loaders How Liferay and Loader...

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Liferay npm Bundler

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Bundler Migration Guide

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Migrating an Angular Project to Use Liferay npm Bundler 2.x

Migrating an Angular Project to Use Liferay npm Bundler 2.x Follow these steps to migrate your Angular project to use liferay-npm-bundler 2.x. While liferay-npm-bundler 1.x relied on Babel to...

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Migrating a liferay-npm-bundler Project from 1.x to 2.x

Migrating a liferay-npm-bundler Project from 1.x to 2.x liferay-npm-bundler 2.x offers more stability and includes more features out-of-the-box. If you already created a project using the 1.x...

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Migrating a Plain JavaScript, Billboard JS, JQuery, Metal JS, React, or Vue JS Project to Use Liferay npm Bundler 2.x

Migrating a Plain JavaScript, Billboard JS, JQuery, Metal JS, React, or Vue JS Project to Use Liferay npm Bundler 2.x Follow these steps to migrate the framework projects shown below to use...

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Migrating Your Project to Use liferay-npm-bundler's New Mode

Migrating Your Project to Use liferay-npm-bundler's New Mode Since issue #303, two modes of operation are available for the liferay-npm-bundler. You can preprocess files before the bundler runs, or...

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Changes Between Bundler 1.x and 2.x

Changes Between Bundler 1.x and 2.x This article outlines the key changes between liferay-npm-bundler version 1.x and 2.x. Automatically Formatting Modules for AMD In version series 1.x of the...

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Understanding the npmbundlerrc Structure

Understanding the npmbundlerrc Structure The liferay-npm-bundler is configured via a .npmbundlerrc file placed in the widget project's root folder. You can create a complete configuration manually...

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