LibraryActive

AdonisJS Application

Root Application class that wires together an AdonisJS app, exposing environment, state, signals, and path helpers.

Field note

What it does

The Application class handles wiring an AdonisJS app: it manages lifecycle, environment info, state, and helpers for project paths.

Capabilities

Available capabilities

Lifecycle Management Environment Detection Project path generation Process signal handling Process signal handling

Add your first action

Connect the controller to a route

Constructor injection

Controllers

Creating your first controller

Dependency injection

Generate the controller

getEnvironment

Returns the current runtime environment: web, console, repl, or test.

listen / listenOnce

Method injection

nodeEnvironment

Exposes the Node.js environment derived from NODE_ENV, normalized for consistency.

notify

Sends messages to the parent process by wrapping process.send.

Resource-driven controllers

setEnvironment

Switches the application environment before the app has been booted.

getState

Returns lifecycle state: created, initiated, booted, ready, or terminated.