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Introducing the AdonisJS Ace CLI — Let’s Learn Adonis 5, Lesson 1.2
View all lessons in the Let’s Learn Adonis 5 series here.
Newly created Adonis projects actually come with the Ace CLI packed in. The Ace CLI is Adonis’ command-line interface (CLI). It allows us to conveniently create various types of files, startup our starter, get overview information about our project. It’s also easily expandable by both installed packages and us the developers.
The first command you’re probably going to utilize is called node ace serve, this is the command we use to start our server up. The serve command is what allows us to view our application in the browser at http://localhost:3333.
Ace Command Anatomy
Let’s digest that serve command a little bit to get a better understanding of what we’re doing. In the command node ace serve, the actual command name is serve while node ace is instructing node that we'd like to communicate with the Ace CLI, made available via the ace file within our project. So, node ace gives us access to the Ace CLI, while serve is the actual command we're running.
