Getting started with Athena
Similar to what we did when creating our CLI application in Chapter 4, Exploring Crystal via Writing a Command-Line Interface, we are going to make use of the crystal init command to scaffold our application. However, unlike last time, where we scaffolded out a library, we are going to initialize an app. The main reason for this is so that we also get a shard.lock file to allow for reproducible installs, as we learned in the previous chapter. The full command would end up looking like crystal init app blog.
Now that we have our application scaffolded, we can go ahead and add Athena as a dependency by adding the following to the shard.yml file, being sure to run shards install afterward as well:
dependencies: athena: github: athena-framework/framework version: ~> 0.16.0
And that is all there is to installing Athena. It is designed to be non-intrusive by not requiring any external dependencies...
