I am currently doing the official playframework tutorial : https://www.playframework.com/documentation/2.3.x/Tutorials. The tutorial recommends to use activator tool by Typesafe. I don't understand why I get another activator file when I create a new project.
When I create a project with the following command line :
activator new test-app play-java
My terminal displays:
Fetching the latest list of templates...
OK, application "test-app" is being created using the "play-java" template.
To run "test-app" from the command line, "cd test-app" then:
/Users/XXXXX/Documents/Developpements/play-sandbox/test-app/activator run
To run the test for "test-app" from the command line, "cd test-app" then:
/Users/XXXXX/Documents/Developpements/play-sandbox/test-app/activator test
To run the Activator UI for "test-app" from the command line, "cd test-app" then:
/Users/XXXXX/Documents/Developpements/play-sandbox/test-app/activator ui
I can observe this in test-app directory :
442 1 oct 01:01 .
238 1 oct 01:01 ..
141 1 oct 01:01 .gitignore
591 1 oct 01:01 LICENSE
148 1 oct 01:01 README
9680 1 oct 01:01 activator
1188339 1 oct 01:01 activator-launch-1.2.10.jar
136 1 oct 01:01 app
215 1 oct 01:01 build.sbt
136 1 oct 01:01 conf
136 1 oct 01:01 project
170 1 oct 01:01 public
136 1 oct 01:01 test
I don't understand the aim of activator
and activator-launch-1.2.10.jar
. When I delete these files and I use the activator command line it seems to work perfectly.
Are they important ? Can I delete them ? Should I include them in my .gitignore file ?
Thanks !