Localhost

This goes over hosting a Dendron published site on your local machine.

Prerequisites

Follow instructions from Publishing Quickstart and have publishing setup locally

Steps

1. Build the metadata for your notes
   From Common

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   Build Notes

   Run the following command to prepare your notes for publishing.

   npx dendron publish build
   

2. Build the HTML for your notes

   cd .next && npm run build
   

3. Run the local server

   npm run start
   

This will start a local server on localhost:3000. Unlike the dev server which you get when you run npx dendron publish dev, this is a production server that optimizes all your pages and makes sure to serve everything in seconds.

NOTE: when you want to sync your latest changes, you'll need to run the above steps again. If you host using localhost, we recommend setting up a cron job to pull, build and restart your local server so that your notes are always up to date!

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