Getting Started

This guide will walk you through the process of creating your first essential application.
We will create a simple counter application that increments a counter.
This will introduce you to the concepts involved in creating essential applications.
The counter application is our version of a "Hello World" application.
It is a little trivial but it will give you a good understanding of how to create more complex applications.
Essential is a declarative system that is capable of expressing powerful applications in elegant ways.