Widget Creator is a web application that allows you to quickly create and test widgets. Widgets are used in uPortal-App-Frameworks applications and come complete with their own documentation on how to configure and deploy. This application allows a sandbox for rapid development. UW-Madison hosts a deployed instance for campus developers to use.

How to run locally

mvn jetty:run

Exercises

Complete some exercises that will give you some experience with creating widgets

• List of Links Widget Exercise
• RSS Widget Exercise
• Custom Widget Exercise