Web is the front-end component within the DADI web services stack, useful when you want serve any web document – HTML, CSS, JSON & XML etc.

There are three ways to get started with _Web_, each for slightly different situations.

N.B. Most DADI web services require Node.js and NPM – and I’ll assume you have a basic knowledge of these.

1. DADI CLI - Least hassle

DADI CLI (Command line interface) is by far the simplest way. Once you’ve installed it, CLI will help install, update and customise all DADI Web Services.

Eduardo Bouças has covered this in a previous article, but we'll do a quick overview again here.

Assuming you haven’t already installed the CLI. Run the following command in your terminal:

npm install @dadi/cli -g

This gives you a world of possibilities across our services. Run dadi in your terminal to see the full list.

Ok, now we can install Web. Firstly, create and/or cd into your project directory and run: