Basic theme quickstart

To build a site using this theme, ensure you have Node.js version 20 or above installed.

Download the theme #

The theme’s Github repository is available at
github.com/craigbuckler/publican.theme.basic

You can either:

1. download and extract a ZIP of the latest code, or

2. fork the repository and clone it.

   git clone git@github.com:<your-id>/publican.theme.basic.git
   

Install dependencies #

Enter the theme directory and install the dependencies (the Publican static site generator and LiveLocalhost development server):

cd publican.theme.basic
npm install

Run a development build #

To build the site and launch a development server run:

npm start

The log shows the server’s address:

[livelocalhost] development server started: http://localhost:8281/

Open this in your browser and look around the site.

To stop the server, press Ctrl | Cmd + C in the terminal.

Run a production build #

To build a production copy of the site with minified HTML files, run:

npm run build

The files built to the build/ directory can be copied to any web server.