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This software is required to use App Studio and Appkit to develop, build, and deploy search apps.
  • Appkit. A version of Appkit is included in each App Studio release. Appkit is also released independently. For information about upgrading an app to use a later version of Appkit, see Upgrade Appkit in Existing Apps.
When you create an Appkit webapp, it uses a specific version of Appkit. Appkit releases occur independently of App Studio releases.You can upgrade web apps to use the latest version of Appkit.How to upgrade
  1. Stop the app.
  2. In the package.json file at the root of your project, update the appkit-ui dependency to the latest Appkit version, for example: 
    "appkit-ui": "http://appkit.lucidworks.com/repo/4.2.0/appkit-ui.tar.gz",
  3. In the pom.xml file at the root of your project, update the value of the parent.version property to the latest Appkit version, for example: 
        <parent>
        <groupId>twigkit</groupId>
        <artifactId>twigkit.app.js</artifactId>
        <version>4.2.0</version>
    </parent>
  4. Upgrade the Appkit Social module, if required.
  5. Perform any additional upgrade steps that are required for a specific Appkit upgrade. See the Appkit Release Notes for more information.
  6. Start the app.
App Studio is supported on the following versions. Dependency conflicts and errors are generated on later versions.
  • Oracle Java 1.8
  • Node.js v16.17.0
  • npm 9.0.2