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uid: application-development.applications-and-solutions.about-applications
description: "An Application in Intent Architect defines a scope of code files to automate, composed of installed Modules, Designers, and configuration settings."
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# About Applications

Applications in Intent Architect represent a _scope of code files_ that we want to automate. It could be a full-stack monolithic application, a microservice, or even just a single folder in which we wish to generate and manage files.

Applications are fundamentally composed of installed [Modules](https://docs.intentarchitect.com/docs-md/application-development/applications-and-solutions/about-modules/about-modules.md), [Designers](https://docs.intentarchitect.com/docs-md/application-development/modelling/about-designers/about-designers.md) and some high-level configuration settings.

Creating a new application in Intent Architect can be done by clicking on the "Create a new application" button in the home view to launch the _Create application_ wizard.

![Create Application Start](images/create-application-start.png)

The first page of the wizard lists the available [Application Templates](https://docs.intentarchitect.com/docs-md/application-templates/about-application-templates/about-application-templates.md) in the selected Repository (The `All` setting being all the Repositories configured in your user settings. [Learn how to change your default repositories here](https://docs.intentarchitect.com/docs-md/application-development/user-interface/how-to-change-user-settings/how-to-change-user-settings.md)).

Here you can search and choose which application template you want and directly set key settings like the Application's name, location and [solution](https://docs.intentarchitect.com/docs-md/application-development/applications-and-solutions/about-solutions/about-solutions.md) name.

> [!NOTE]
> It is possible to create an empty application by clicking on the `CREATE EMPTY` button instead of `NEXT`. This would create a new application without any Modules or metadata installed.