MDB CLI Getting Started

Via website

The easiest way to create an account is to navigate to mdbgo.com or mdbootstrap.com and create free account.

Note: You can use same account on mdbootstrap.com and mdbgo.com

Video tutorial:

Usage

CLI is a powerful tool which allows you to create different projects. Regardless whether you are building your frontend in Angular, React, Vue or plain JavaScript or you want to build entire application using node.js or PHP.

Once you create them you can publish them to web using single command. No more difficult configuration and deployment.

CLI allows you also to setup your Wordpress project with single command.

You can also manage your database and git repository for a project. Everything without getting your hands of keyboard.

Video tutorial:

Initialize

In order to initialize empty project use the following command:

        
            
              mdb blank init
            
        
    

Publish

Once you finish building your project, use the following command do deploy it:

        
            
              mdb frontend publish
            
        
    

Note: Since frontend is a default value for publish command, you can run just mdb publish (instead of mdb frontend publish )

If you are publishing for the first time, CLI will ask you few initial questions like

• Whether you want to use npm or yarn?
• What is your project name, version, description, github address and license

Once you successfully publish your project they will be stored for a future.

Video tutorial:

Initialize

In order to initialize project and use predefined starter use the following command:

        
            
              mdb init
            
        
    

You will list of available starters to choose from.

Publish

Once you finish building your project, use the following command do deploy it:

        
            
              mdb frontend publish
            
        
    

Note: Since frontend is a default value for publish command, you can run just mdb publish (instead of mdb frontend publish )

If you are publishing for the first time, CLI will ask you few initial questions like

• Whether you want to use npm or yarn?
• What is your project name, version, description, github address and license

Once you successfully publish your project they will be stored for a future.

Video tutorial:

Initialize

Let's initialize npm project first:

        
            
              mdb blank init 
            
        
    

Specify project name and choose an npm and . You can also add other meta descriptions or accept default values.

Open project in editor (ie. VS Code), create index.js and create your app. You can use sample code:

        
            
              const http = require("http");
              const port = 3000;
              
              const server = http.createServer((req, res) => {
                res.statusCode = 200;
                res.setHeader("Content-Type", "text/plain");
                res.end("Hello Node.JS World ");
              });
              
              server.listen(port, () => {
                console.log(`Server running at port: ${port}`);
              });
            
        
    

Publish

Once you finish building your project, use the following command do deploy it:

        
            
              mdb backend publish -p node12 
            
        
    

Done! Your project will be ready. If you want to check project console use mdb logs command.

Video tutorial:

Initialize

Let's initialize npm project first:

        
            
              mdb blank init 
            
        
    

Specify project name and choose an npm and . You can also add other meta descriptions or accept default values.

Open project in editor (ie. VS Code), create index.php and create your app. You can use sample code:

        
            
              <?php echo("Hello PHP World"); ?>
            
        
    

Publish

Once you finish building your project, use the following command do deploy it:

        
            
              mdb backend publish -p php7.4 
            
        
    

Done! Your project will be ready. If you want to check project console use mdb logs command.

Video tutorial:

Local setup

Although this is not mandatory we strongly encourage you to setup your local WordPress instance. If you don't know how to that we have prepared for you separate tutorial.

Assuming that you have your WordPress installed locally navigate to wordpress_location/wp-content/themes

and run the following command:

        
            
              mdb init
            
        
    

This will show you list of available starters. Choose from the list either MDB starter or Empty starter. Empty starter is an empty boilerplate without any libraries while MDB starter includes MDB starter and allows you to use one of the thousands MDB5 components.

Publish

Once your theme is ready you can publish it to web using the following command:

        
            
              mdb wordpress publish
            
        
    

CLI will ask you about your project name and email. After that MDB GO will create and configure for you everything - database, wordpress, configuration and theme. You will be shown your admin login and password.

Note: Remember to store your username and password. This is the only time when they are displayed. If you want to change your password login to your WordPress instance and edit profile.

Video tutorial:

Add git repository to your project

MDB GO allows you to add a git repository to your projects. In order to do so simply login to your admin panel at mdbgo.com, navigate to projects and click at MANAGE button next to the project.

If your project doesn't have repository you will see X next to "Repository" field.

In case your project already have a repository you will see a link to it.

Click CREATE button. This will create a git repository and submit your currently deployed code into a new repository.

Now you can navigate to your git project, review history, manage access and more.

From now on whenever you run mdb get command to download your MDB GO project to your local computer it will clone the project from GIT repository (instead of downloading it from FTP)

Video tutorial: