Salesforce DX Developer Guide

How Salesforce Developer Experience Changes the Way You Work
Enable Dev Hub Features in Your Org
Project Setup
Authorization
Metadata Coverage
Scratch Orgs
Sandboxes
Development
Develop Against Any Org
Assign a Permission Set
Ways to Add Data to Your Org
Create Lightning Apps and Aura Components
Create Lightning Web Components
Create an Apex Class
Create an Apex Trigger
Testing
View Apex Debug Logs
Apex Debugger
Build and Release Your App
First-Generation Managed Packages
Second-Generation Managed Packages
Unlocked Packages
Continuous Integration
Troubleshoot Salesforce DX
Limitations for Salesforce DX
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Create Lightning Apps and Aura Components

To create Lightning apps and Aura components from the CLI, you must have an aura directory in your Salesforce DX project.
  1. In <app dir>/main/default, create the aura directory .
  2. Change to the aura directory.
  3. In the aura directory, create a Lightning app or an Aura component. 
    1sfdx force:lightning:app:create -n myAuraapp
    1sfdx force:lightning:component:create --type aura -n myAuraComponent