Installing and creating Keystone apps

There are two ways to start a Keystone project – from scratch or by using the Keystone scaffolding tool known as keystone-app. If you are going to do it from scratch, you need to install any Keystone-related packages manually. These include the minimum required Keystone's packages and the additional Keystone packages that you need to build your app. Let's take a look at this manual installation:

1. Create a project directory and install the minimum required packages – the Keystone package itself, the Keystone GraphQL package (which is considered as an app in Keystone), and a database adapter:

$ npm i @keystonejs/keystone
$ npm i @keystonejs/app-graphql
$ npm i @keystonejs/adapter-mongoose

2. Install the additional Keystone packages that you need, such as the Keystone Admin UI package (which is considered an app in Keystone) and the Keystone field package for registering lists:

$ npm i @keystonejs/app-admin-ui
$ npm...