Create a Feathers UI project in a Terminal / Command Line
Create Feathers UI projects with Haxe and OpenFL in a terminal / CLI, and learn the commands needed to build your project, or run it with different targets.
Prerequisites
Create a project
Open a terminal, and run the following command:
haxelib run feathersui new-project HelloWorld
The newly created project will include the following defaults:
- A standard OpenFL project.xml file
- A src folder for Haxe source files
- A default icon
Run the project
In your terminal, run the following command to launch your project in your default web browser:
openfl test html5 -debug
You may open the browser's developer tools to access its debugging capabilities.
Build the project
You can build a project without launching it in a debugger.
In your terminal, run the following command to build your project using OpenFL's html5 target:
openfl build html5
The compiled project output may be found inside the bin folder. For example, the html5 target compiles to the bin/html5/bin folder.
Troubleshooting
How to fix some issues that you may encounter.
Error: Could not find haxelib [library name], does it need to be installed?
This error indicates that one or more of your project's dependencies is not installed. In a terminal, run the haxelib install command with the name of the missing library. For example, run the following command to install Actuate.
haxelib install actuate
Error: Failed to create project. New project folder is not empty.
This error indicates that the new-project CLI command was run in a folder that contains one or more files. If the folder appears empty, it may contain hidden files.