Capability

Development and Tooling

Liferay offers a comprehensive toolkit to extend or customize your digital experience. Build applications quickly with low-code/no-code features like Objects, or leverage developer tools like Liferay Workspace and Blade CLI for further customizations.

For users on PaaS or running Self-Hosted, Liferay also offers tools deploying customizations.

Feature
Deployment Approach
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...
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...
Using nestedFields to Query Related Entries
Using nestedFields to Query Related Entries Liferay 7.4 U69+/GA69+ The nestedFields parameter returns multiple levels of related object entries in a single GET request. Pass the nestedFields...
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...
Creating a Standard Application
Creating a Standard Application To create applications based on a custom object takes four steps: create the object, create at least one form view, create at least one table view, and deploy the...
Blade CLI
Blade CLI Blade CLI can be installed through a command line interface or a graphical installer. If you're behind a proxy, once it's installed you can configure it to operate through the proxy....
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...
Generating Projects with Blade CLI
Generating Projects with Blade CLI Blade CLI exists to create, build, and deploy Liferay projects in Liferay Workspaces. Once created, these projects can be imported into an IDE or worked on...
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...
Liferay CLI Tool
Liferay CLI Tool The Liferay CLI tool is deprecated as of Liferay 2024.Q4/Portal GA129, and it's planned for future removal. The Liferay CLI tool makes it easy to create Angular, JavaScript,...
Bundler Migration Guide
Bundler Migration Guide The Liferay npm bundler is deprecated of Liferay 2024.Q4/Portal GA129, and it's planned for future removal.
Other Tools (Deprecated)
Other Tools (Deprecated) These tools are deprecated as of Liferay 2024.Q4/Portal GA129, and they are planned for future removal. Modern browsers (and Liferay DXP) all support including JavaScript...
Migrating a liferay-npm-bundler Project from 1.x to 2.x
Migrating a liferay-npm-bundler Project from 1.x to 2.x The Liferay npm bundler is deprecated of Liferay 2024.Q4/Portal GA129, and it's planned for future removal. liferay-npm-bundler 2.x offers...
Changes Between Bundler 1.x and 2.x
Changes Between Bundler 1.x and 2.x The Liferay npm bundler is deprecated of Liferay 2024.Q4/Portal GA129, and it's planned for future removal. This article outlines the key changes between...
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...
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...
Migrating Your Project to Use liferay-npm-bundler's New Mode
Migrating Your Project to Use liferay-npm-bundler's New Mode The Liferay npm bundler is deprecated of Liferay 2024.Q4/Portal GA129, and it's planned for future removal. Since issue #303, two...
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: ...
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...
OSGi Bundles and npm Package Structure
OSGi Bundles and npm Package Structure The Liferay npm bundler is deprecated of Liferay 2024.Q4/Portal GA129, and it's planned for future removal. To deploy JavaScript modules, you must create an...