Enable Developer Mode - Library Management with Frappe Framework

Course Content

Introduction

Who is this for? What are we building?

Who is this for?

What are we building?

Prerequisites

A list of resources to help you get started with building apps using Frappe.

MariaDB / Postgres

JavaScript / jQuery

Jinja Templating

Install and Setup Bench

Bench is the command line tool to manage Frappe apps and sites.

Create the frappe-bench directory

Directory Structure

Start the Bench Server

Create an App

Create a frappe app scaffold using the bench CLI.

App directory structure

Create a Site

Create a DocType

DocType is analogous to a Model in other frameworks. Apart from defining properties, it also defines the behavior of the Model.

Enable Developer Mode

Creating a DocType

What happened when you created the Article DocType?

DocType Features

In the previous chapter, we created the Article doctype. Let's see what other features we can customize.

Controller Methods

Types of DocType

Form Scripts

Portal Pages

Portal pages are server rendered pages for your website visitors.

Customize Web View Template

Quiz Time

This quiz has a few basic questions on what we have learned so far. It will give you an idea of how well you have understood the lessons.

Practice

What's Next?

The goal of this tutorial was to give an introduction to the various parts of the framework. We have only scratched the surface here. Frappe Framework has a lot more features that have enabled us to build complex software such as ERPNext.

Assignment

Now that you have completed this tutorial and created the Library Management App using the Frappe Framework, its time you create an app on your own

Enable Developer Mode

May 19, 2021

Before we can create DocTypes, we need to enable developer mode. This will enable boilerplate creation when we create doctypes and we can track them into version control with our app.

Go to your terminal and from the frappe-bench directory, run the following command:

$ bench --site library.test set-config --global developer_mode 1

Questions