Using Activator

Activator is the Lightbend Reactive Platform's build and tutorial tool

Start Activator's UI

In your File Explorer, navigate into the directory which the zip was extracted to, then:

  • right-click on the file named "activator.bat"
  • Select "Open"
  • If prompted with a warning, click to continue

This will start the UI in your browser, from there you can:

  • Start a tutorial
  • Create a new application
  • Import an existing app

Read the complete documentation to learn more about the Activator UI.

Use Activator from the command line

Add Activator to your PATH to have the command available in your cli.

Create a new project from the command line:

 C:\Users\projects\> activator new

Run an existing project from its directory:

 C:\Users\projects\> activator run

Enter the interactive cli (within a project directory):

 C:\Users\projects\> activator shell

Read the complete documentation to learn more about the Activator CLI.

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See it in action