Project structure

• ./example - Liferay workspace
• ./example/modules/example-portlet/ - Spring MVC portlet
• ./react-union-boilerplate-liferay/ - FE project
• ./react-union-boilerplate-liferay/packages/app-* - App shells
• ./react-union-boilerplate-liferay/packages/widget-* - Widgets

Liferay workspace

Install blade-cli

See blade docs.

Installation:

curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/liferay/liferay-blade-cli/master/cli/installers/local | sh

Create liferay-workspace

blade init -v 7.4 example

Create MVC porlet

Inside workspace folder

blade create -v 7.4 -t mvc-portlet -p eu.lundegaard.example -c ExamplePortlet example-portlet

Successfully created project example-portlet in [WORKSPACE_DIR]/modules

Building a module

./gradlew modules:example-portlet:build

Or

blade gw modules:example-portlet:build

Or

blade gw modules:example-portlet:jar

Jar can be found at: modules/build/example-portlet/libs

Running Liferay locally

1. Run docker container:

docker compose up

2. Go to http://localhost:8080/

3. Sign in

[email protected]
test

and change password.

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Generation of official Liferay JS portlet

yarn global add yo generator-liferay-js
yo liferay-js

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References

• Slides
• liferay-npm-bundler - docs
• The format of configuration in liferay-npm-bundler projects