Create a new Islandy project by running the Islandy project creation tool. This scaffolds out the various files and folders a Islandy project needs.

New Islandy projects can be created by using the Islandy project creation tool. It will scaffold out a new project to get you started.

To create a new project, run:

$ mkdir my-islandy-app && cd my-islandy-app
$ npm create islandy@latest

This will scaffold out the new project containing some files and directories. There are files and folders that are strictly necessary to run a Islandy project:

• package.json: It declares the dependencies and registers the scripts to run the project locally and in production.
• islandy.config.js: This file is a regular Node.js module, not a JSON file. It gets used by the Islandy server and build phases, and it's not included in the browser build.
• manifest.islandy.js: This is the manifest file that contains information about your routes and islands. This file is automatically generated in development based on your routes/ and islands/ folders. DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE!

Two important folders are also created that contain your routes and islands respectively:

• routes/: This folder contains all of the routes in your project. The names of each file in this folder correspond to the path where that page will be accessed. Code inside of this folder is never directly shipped to the client.
• islands/: This folder contains all of the interactive islands in your project. The name of each file corresponds to the name of the island defined in that file. Code inside of this folder can be run from both client and server.

Also a components/ folder is created that contains the server components files.

Finally a public/ folder is created that contains static files that are automatically served "as is".