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# Setting up your environment

## Init Command

SchemaJS provides with `schemajs init` as a way to easily initialize the boilerplate necessary for the database server to spin up. All you need to do is run `schemajs init` inside the folder where you would like your database schemas to be placed.

## Foundational

To use SchemaJS effectively, your database implementation needs to follow specific structural patterns. This ensures that the engine can correctly interpret and execute your database logic.

We *recommend* you create a workspace folder. You can do this by running the following command:

```
cd documents && mkdir schemajs-workspace && cd schemajs-workspace
```

After creating the folder `schemajs-workspace` you will need to create a `SchemaJS.toml` inside it, which will contain all the configuration, and most importantly, the schemas you would like to load in the engine. For the sake of simplicity during this section, we will just load our `public` schema. Our `SchemaJS.toml` will look like this:

```toml
[workspace]
databases = [
    "./public"
]
```

and inside `schemajs-workspace` we will create the following folders

```
- ./public
- ./public/tables
```

You can do this by running the following command

```
mkdir -p public/tables
```

After having followed the steps above, your environment should look like this:

```
- schemajs-workspace
    - SchemaJS.toml
    - public
        - tables
```