Custom Admin App missing node folder

App Development Admin
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Hi all,

I’m developing a custom app for VTEX Admin, and I’m currently going through the ‘Creating a Master Data CRUD App tutorial’.

On step 5, it says “In the terminal, change to the node folder of your app”, however I don’t have a node folder in my app. I have “node”: “6.x” in the builders in my manifest.json and created the app by cloning the boilerplate on Github. I also tried running vtex setup in the app’s directory but still no luck.

Does the node directory and all it’s contents have to created manually or does it get generated in a way that I’m missing?

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Hi @richard_byrne, it seems that you may have cloned a different boilerplate. Apps can have a frontend layer (React) or a backend layer (Node.js or .NET) or both, and there are various boilerplates available for different scenarios. According to the tutorial, you would want to clone the Service Example boilerplate, available here. Hope this helps.