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Generate Project Outlines With AI

This tutorial will show you how to use Defang's AI agent to generate a project outline, and then deploy that project to the cloud using Defang.

Step 1 - Use the defang generate command in the CLI​

Here you can describe what you would like the service to do and the CLI will then generate a project outline with all the files required to make it deployable with Defang.

In this tutorial, we'll use the following prompt to describe our service:

"A basic service with 2 REST endpoints. The default endpoint will be for health check and should return a JSON object like this: { "status": "OK" }. The /echo endpoint will echo back all request parameters in the response."

defang generate

? Choose the language you'd like to use:  [Use arrows to move, type to filter, ? for more help]
> Nodejs
  Golang
  Python

? Choose a sample service:
Generate with AI

? Please describe the service you'd like to build: [? for help] 
A basic service with 2 REST endpoints. The default endpoint will be for health check and should return a JSON object like this: { "status": "OK" }. The /echo endpoint will echo back all request parameters in the response.

? What folder would you like to create the service in? [? for help] (service1)
project1

This will generate the different files required to start your project based on your prompt and the language selected.

Step 2 - Review the Code​

Change into the new project folder:

cd project1

You can open the files in a code editor to review or make changes as needed before deploying the service.

Step 3 - Build and Deploy​

defang compose up