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@sap/generator-cap-project

The CAP project generator behind SAP Business Application Studio's wizard; its readme says it is meant to be used only there.

Facts

Latestv2.1.4ReleasedLicenceSAP DEVELOPER LICENSE AGREEMENT 3.2 CAP

Where it sits

Lives in
Provides
GeneratorsCAPGeneratorscapabilityGetting from nothing to a project that runs, and from a project that runs to one that has the piece you just decided you need. Two different moments: the first is a one-time decision about layout, the second recurs for the life of the project.

What it declares

Every artifact

Type
Generator
Origin
By SAP

As a generator

Generates
does not say
Run with
does not say
Distributed through
does not say

Connections1

Install

npm add @sap/generator-cap-project

Derived from the package name. No recipe recorded; the README has the configuration.

README

quoted from @sap/generator-cap-project@2.1.4, read
@sap/generator-cap-project@2.1.4/README.mdOn npm

@sap/generator-cap-project

excerpt, SAP DEVELOPER LICENSE AGREEMENT 3.2 CAP, read licencethe rest, on npm

History

Latest

v2.1.4

Changed 1

  1. v2.1.3

    Features 1

  2. v2.1.2

    Changed 1

  3. v2.1.1dated in the atlas

    Removed 2

  4. v2.1.0

    Changed 1

  5. v2.0.6

    Other 1

  6. v2.0.5

    Changed 1

  7. v2.0.4

    Features 1, Fixes 1

  8. v2.0.3

    Fixes 1

  9. v2.0.2

    Changed 1

  10. v2.0.1

    Changed 2

  11. v2.0.0

    Fixes 1

  12. v1.8.3

    Changed 1, Fixes 1

  13. v1.8.2

    Features 1

  14. v1.8.1

    Fixes 1

  15. v1.8.0

    Features 1

  16. v1.7.13

    Changed 1

  17. v1.7.12

    Fixes 1

  18. v1.7.11

    Changed 2

  19. v1.7.9

    Features 1, Changed 1

  20. v1.7.8

    Fixes 1

  21. v1.7.7

    Changed 2

  22. v1.7.6

    Removed 1

  23. v1.7.5

    Removed 1

  24. v1.7.4

    Fixes 2

  25. v1.7.3

    Features 1

  26. v1.7.2

    Changed 1

  27. v1.7.1

    Changed 1, Fixes 1

  28. v1.7.0

    Changed 2

  29. v1.6.8

    Changed 1

  30. v1.6.7

    Changed 1

  31. v1.6.6

    Fixes 2

  32. v1.6.5

    Fixes 2

  33. v1.6.4

    Fixes 1

  34. v1.6.3

    Other 1

  35. v1.6.2

    Changed 1

  36. v1.6.1

    Fixes 1

  37. v1.6.0

    Features 1, Changed 2

  38. v1.5.4

    Fixes 1

  39. v1.5.2

    Changed 1

  40. v1.5.1

    Changed 1

  41. v1.5.0

    Changed 1

  42. v1.4.3

    Changed 1

  43. v1.4.2

    Changed 2

  44. v1.4.1

    Fixes 1

  45. v1.4.0

    Changed 1

  46. v1.3.0

    Changed 1

  47. v1.2.1

    Changed 1, Fixes 1

  48. v1.2.0

    Changed 3

  49. v1.1.3

    Fixes 2

  50. v1.1.2

    Fixes 1

  51. v1.1.1

    Fixes 1

  52. v1.1.0

    Features 1, Fixes 1

  53. v1.0.7

    Fixes 1

  54. v1.0.6

    Fixes 3

  55. v1.0.5

    Features 1

  56. v1.0.4

    Features 1

  57. v1.0.3

    Features 1, Fixes 1

27,334downloads per week, npm
Weekly downloads for @sap/generator-cap-project26 complete calendar weeks from 2026-04-20 to 2026-10-18; the latest total is 27334.20 Apr – 26 Apr: 57,63727 Apr – 3 May: 50,1934 May – 10 May: 55,86211 May – 17 May: 59,76918 May – 24 May: 60,36925 May – 31 May: 56,0751 Jun – 7 Jun: 34,9158 Jun – 14 Jun: 65,54115 Jun – 21 Jun: 68,00722 Jun – 28 Jun: 60,42629 Jun – 5 Jul: 64,4576 Jul – 12 Jul: 63,86013 Jul – 19 Jul: 69,85220 Jul – 26 Jul: 66,86127 Jul – 2 Aug: 65,9053 Aug – 9 Aug: 68,69210 Aug – 16 Aug: 49,09717 Aug – 23 Aug: 57,98824 Aug – 30 Aug: 64,62631 Aug – 6 Sept: 45,9327 Sept – 13 Sept: 36,69314 Sept – 20 Sept: 41,86621 Sept – 27 Sept: 52,61228 Sept – 4 Oct: 59,1455 Oct – 11 Oct: 55,55612 Oct – 18 Oct: 27,334
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Details

Sources4
npm registrydiscovered herechecked
The discovery passdiscovered herechecked
npm registry, @sap/generator-cap-projectversion, releases, installschecked
README.mdquoted, and what the entry declareschecked

Sources are graph entities: the same page may back several entries, and an unreachable source flags every row that rests on it.

Compatibility and provenance
latestv2.1.4
first release
releases and cadence38, ~51d median
discovered vianpm registry, The discovery pass
first seen in the atlas
ecosystem and domaincap, developer-experience
History in the atlas4
  1. npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@sap/generator-cap-project
  2. Typed cds-plugin by placement, which defaults every candidate to that. It is not one.
  3. The CAP project generator behind SAP Business Application Studio's wizard; its readme says it is meant to be used only there.
  4. First seen.
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