confusing app title

[sideshowtom]

The generator I guess can only be used from the command line and there is no button to generate an app from the gui. I was expecting this to generate a simple app like a hello world, but it only has options to open other generated apps like a notepad and it says

"This application was generated by the Solid React SDK by inrupt."

Asking for a lot I guess, but it would be nice to generate it with the gui and put the result in my pod or make it possible to cut and paste it to github

[james-martin-jd]

Hello! The generator is a command-line tool, that's right. It uses a commonly used application scaffolding tool called yeoman. That's actually where the name generator comes from.

If you run the tool, you're given the option of a full app (with the text editor, tic tac toe game, and form examples) or a lite app. The lite app is probably as close to a hello world as you can get for a full application - it is just one page, the Welcome page, with a single example of fetching the name and profile image updating.

The generator also includes all the packages, libraries, and the inrupt style guide, to make app development quicker.

If you want to run the generator, you can follow the instructions in the readme to install yeoman and the generator, and run the command line app.