make backend-build

This chapter assumes you have previously followed Install Plone with Cookieplone.

The Makefile at the root of your project invokes commands in backend/Makefile.

The command make backend-build performs the following tasks.

• Invokes the target install in backend/Makefile.

• install has the two dependencies $(VENV_FOLDER) and config.

• $(VENV_FOLDER) creates and populates a virtual Python environment with uv from a constraints.txt file generated using mxdev.

• config creates the Zope and Plone configuration files using cookiecutter-zope-instance.

You can configure your Zope instance as described in the section Configure Zope.