## 2.3 Creating an Application

To create a Grails application you first need to familiarize yourself with the usage of the `grails` command which is used in the following manner:

    grails [command name]

In this case the command you need to execute is create-app:

    grails create-app helloworld

This will create a new directory inside the current one that contains the project. You should now navigate to this directory in terminal:

    cd helloworld