Chapter 1: Environment Setup and Introduction to UmiJS
UmiJS is Ant Financial's underlying frontend framework and an open source project for developing enterprise-class frontend applications. It's a robust framework you can combine with Ant Design to provide everything you need to build a modern user experience.
In this chapter, you will learn how to install and configure a project using UmiJS and Visual Studio Code (VSCode). You'll also understand the folder structure and main files of UmiJS. Then, you'll learn how to set fast navigation between pages using umi history and finally discover Umi UI, a visual option to interact with UmiJS and add components to your project.
We'll cover the following main topics:
- Setting up our environment and configuring UmiJS
- Understanding the UmiJS folder structure and its main files
- Exploring the Umi CLI and adding pages
- Understanding routing and navigation in UmiJS
- Using Umi UI
By the end of this chapter, you'll have learned everything you need to get started with developing your project and you will also know about the fundamental behavior of an UmiJS project and its configurations.
