lfr create workspace

It allows you to create a Liferay Workspace and specify if you want to use Gradle or Maven, DXP (EE) or Portal (CE) and on which major version.

Without flags, it creates a Gradle workspace on the latest version and release of Liferay Portal (CE). You can change defaults (i.e. without explicit flags) by editing the ~/.lfr/config.toml file.

The command is also running a git init for the created workspace, and is adding a GitHub Action to help you upgrade the Liferay Workspaces you host on GitHub.

Starting with v3.1.0, the command is checking your Java version to provide more information about compatibilities with Liferay, Gradle and Liferay Gradle Workspace plugin versions.

Usage: 

lfr create workspace NAME [flags]
# or
lfr c ws NAME [flags]

Examples: 

lfr c ws my-workspace
lfr c ws my-workspace -e dxp
lfr c ws my-workspace -e dxp -b maven
lfr c ws my-workspace -e dxp -b maven -v 7.3

For DXP releases, the Liferay Workspace will find a custom bundle URL in the gradle.properties or pom.xml (liferay.workspace.bundle.url commented by default ). Because the releases-cdn.liferay.com URLs are often slow or unresponsive, this custom repository is mirroring the Tomcat bundles of each release as a GitHub release. It should improve the lfr init command.

Flags:

  • -h, --help
    • help for lfr create workspace

Global Flags:

  • --no-color
    • disable colors for output messages
  • -p, --package
    • base package name (default org.acme)