Pedestal provides a Leiningen (https://leiningen.org/) template named pedestal-service to create a new project with the required dependencies and directory layout for a Pedestal service. To create a new project using the template, use the lein command with the template name and a project name as shown here:
# Create a new project 'pedestal-play' with template 'pedestal-service'
% lein new pedestal-service pedestal-play
Retrieving pedestal-service/lein-template/0.5.3/lein-template-0.5.3.pom from clojars
Retrieving pedestal-service/lein-template/0.5.3/lein-template-0.5.3.jar from clojars
Generating a pedestal-service application called pedestal-play.
The lein command will create a new directory with the specified project name and add all the required dependencies to the project.clj file. It will also initialize...