Setup Grails 3 Development Environment
- Download the latest version (or any version) from https://grails.org/
- Upzip it to a known directory,
d:\grails-3.3.6
, for example. - Download and install the required JDK for your Grails version from Oracle. For example, Grails 3.3.6 requires
Java JDK 1.8
to run. https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html - Go to the directory you want to create the Hello World project. In my case, it is
d:\grailsApp
. Type the commandgrails create-app helloworld
to create a new project named helloworld.D:\grailsApp>grails create-app helloworld
- Change directory to the newly create
helloworld
directory, and type the commandgrails
. Grails will download the require library. It might take sometime for download for the first time. After that, we will enter the grails modeD:\grailsApp>cd helloworld D:\grailsApp\helloworld>grails BUILD SUCCESSFUL | Enter a command name to run. Use TAB for completion: grails>
- To see which commands we can run in grails mode, press
Tab
key. The interesting one would beassemble
,compile
,clean
,run-app
, andstop-app
grails> assemble bug-report clean compile console create-controller create-domain-class create-functional-test create-integration-test create-interceptor create-scaffold-controller create-script create-service create-taglib create-unit-test dependency-report generate-all generate-async-controller generate-controller generate-views gradle help install install-templates list-plugins open plugin-info run-app schema-export shell stats stop-app test-app url-mappings-report grails>
- The Development Environment has now been set up.