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Creating an Application Skeleton With the Cobra Generator

Now, let's run the Cobra generator to generate a skeleton for our calculator demo application and examine the generated directory structure and code.

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Creating an application skeleton with the Cobra generator

Let’s start by creating an application called calc-app. We can skip the Viper configuration for now and use no license. Type the following command in the terminal below. You can use your name instead of Gigi

$ cobra init calc-app --pkg-name calc-app --license=none --viper=false --author= Gigi