SAP BTP CAPM Application Development and Deployment – Part 1

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Welcome to the first part of our SAP BTP CAPM (Cloud Application Programming Model) learning series. This series is designed to take you on a complete journey, from beginner-friendly concepts to advanced development techniques within SAP BTP CAPM. While this article sets the stage with essential fundamentals, future parts will dive into intricate concepts, real-world scenarios, and best practices to help you master CAPM end-to-end.

SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) empowers developers to build, deploy, and manage applications seamlessly in the cloud. One of the most popular ways to get started is by deploying a Node.js application on Cloud Foundry environment.
In this step-by-step guide, we’ll create a simple Node.js app locally, set it up with Express, and deploy it to SAP BTP. By the end of this tutorial, you’ll have a working “Hello World!” application running in your BTP space.
Whether you are new to SAP BTP or brushing up your skills, this tutorial will give you a solid foundation for deploying cloud-native apps.

Step 1: Create a new node application in your local system

In your local file system, create a new directory (folder). For example node-tutorial
From your Visual Studio Code, open the node-tutorial folder.
If you don’t have Visual Studio code installed in your system, click the link https://code.visualstudio.com/download to install the VS Code.

Once downloaded, install it in your system.

In this folder, create a file manifest.yml with the following content:

The manifest.yml file represents the configuration describing your application and how it will be deployed to Cloud Foundry.

Note: Make sure you don’t have another application with the name myapp in your space! If you do, use a different name and adjust the whole tutorial according to it.

Inside node-tutorial, create a subfolder myapp.
In the myapp directory, execute:

npm init

Press Enter on every step. This process will walk you through creating package.json file in the myapp folder.

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Then, still in the myapp directory, execute:

Step 2: Deploy the application on Cloud Foundry

To deploy the application, you have to open the command prompt in the node-tutorial directory. Run the bellow command

Once logged in, it will fetch your BTP subaccount and the default space to deploy.

Now, run the bellow command to deploy the app into the BTP subaccount space.

Cf8 push

When the staging and deployment steps are completed, the myapp application should be successfully started and its details displayed in the command console.

Open a browser window and enter the generated URL of the myapp application (see routes).

Click on myapp

Now your node.js application is deployed into BTP subaccount.

You’ve just created and deployed your first Node.js application into SAP BTP using Cloud Foundry. In the upcoming parts of this series will dive into building basic CAPM based applications, HANA Cloud database connectivity and many more.
📢 Stay tuned! as we unfold the complete journey of learning SAP BTP CAPM step-by-step.

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