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Creating a DHIS2 Web app

It's time to create a new Web app! Below we'll show you how to quickly bootstrap an app and how to connect it to a DHIS2 instance (check the previous section if you haven't yet installed yarn or the DHIS2 CLI which will provide the d2 command used below).

Creating a new Web app

  1. From the terminal, create a new DHIS2 app called "my-app"
d2 app scripts init my-app
  1. Change directories to ./my-app and start the app
cd my-app && yarn start

Connecting your Web app to DHIS2

  1. From the browser, navigate to your DHIS2 instance url (if you're running DHIS2 locally via container the address is http://localhost:3000). You will see the following page:

  1. Enter your DHIS2 server URL and the username and password of the default admin user (local DHIS2 instance assumed in the example below)
server: http://localhost:8080
username: admin
password: district
note

If you're running into some Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) policy issues when trying to connect to your application, please check the guide on how to debug common development errors.

  1. You will see the default admin user name and a welcome message

Congratulations! You are ready to start developing a DHIS2 app 🎊

Next steps

Now that you have created a DHIS2 app and connected it to a DHIS2 instance you can learn more about developing apps on DHIS2.

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