Getting Started
About “Capire”
“Capire” (Italian for ‘understand’) is the name of our CAP documentation you’re looking at right now. It’s organized as follows:
- About CAP — a brief introduction and overview of key concepts
- Getting Started — a few guides to get you started quickly
- Cookbook — task-oriented guides from an app developer’s point of view
- Advanced — additional guides re peripheries and deep dives
- Reference docs → for CDS, Java, Node.js
- Releases - information about what is new and what has changed
- Resources — links to other sources of information
Local Setup
For the first steps below, you can go for a minimal local setup as follows:
- Install Node.js → always use the latest LTS version.
- Install SQLite (only required on Windows)
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Install
@sap/cds-dkglobally with:npm i -g @sap/cds-dk cds # test it