<htmllang="en"><head><metacharset="utf-8"/><metahttp-equiv="X-UA-Compatible"content="IE=edge"/><title>Installation · Docusaurus</title><metaname="viewport"content="width=device-width"/><metaname="generator"content="Docusaurus"/><metaproperty="og:title"content="Installation · Docusaurus"/><metaproperty="og:type"content="website"/><metaproperty="og:url"content="https://docusaurus.io/index.html"/><metaproperty="og:description"content="Docusaurus was designed from the ground up to be easily installed and used to get your website up and running quickly. To install Docusaurus, we have created an easy script that will get all of the infrastructure setup for you:"/><metaproperty="og:image"content="https://docusaurus.io/img/docusaurus.png"/><linkrel="shortcut icon"href="/img/docusaurus.ico"/><linkrel="stylesheet"href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/docsearch.js/1/docsearch.min.css"/><linkrel="stylesheet"href="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/highlight.js/9.12.0/styles/solarized-dark.min.css"/><linkrel="alternate"type="application/atom+xml"href="https://docusaurus.io/blog/atom.xml"title="Docusaurus Blog ATOM Feed"/><linkrel="alternate"type="application/rss+xml"href="https://docusaurus.io/blog/feed.xml"title="Docusaurus Blog RSS Feed"/><scripttype="text/javascript"src="https://buttons.github.io/buttons.js"></script><linkrel="stylesheet"href="/css/main.css"/></head><bodyclass="sideNavVisible doc separateOnPageNav"><divclass="fixedHeaderContainer"><divclass="headerWrapper wrapper"><header><ahref="/en"><imgclass="logo"src="/img/docusaurus.svg"/><h2class="headerTitle">Docusaurus</h2></a><divclass="navigationWrapper navigationSlider"><navclass="slidingNav"><ulclass="nav-site nav-site-internal"><liclass="siteNavGroupActive siteNavItemActive"><ahref="/docs/en/installation.html"target="_self">Docs</a></li><liclass=""><ahref="/en/help.html"target="_self">Help</a></li><liclass=""><ahref="/en/about-slash.html"target="_self">About /</a></li><liclass=""><ahref="/blog"target="_self">Blog</a></li><liclass=""><ahref="https://github.com/facebook/docusaurus"target="_self">GitHub</a></li><liclass="navSearchWrapper reactNavSearchWrapper"><inputtype="text"id="search_input_react"placeholder="Search"/></li></ul></nav></div></header></div></div><divclass="navPusher"><divclass="docMainWrapper wrapper"><divclass="container docsNavContainer"id="docsNav"><navclass="toc"><divclass="toggleNav"><sectionclass="navWrapper wrapper"><divclass="navBreadcrumb wrapper"><divclass="navToggle"id="navToggler"><i></i></div><h2><i>›</i><span>Getting Started</span></h2></div><divclass="navGroups"><divclass="navGroup navGroupActive"><h3>Getting Started</h3><ul><liclass="navListItem navListItemActive"><aclass="navItem navItemActive"href="/docs/en/installation.html">Installation</a></li><liclass="navListItem"><aclass="navItem"href="/docs/en/site-preparation.html">Site Preparation</a></li><liclass="navListItem"><aclass="navItem"href="/docs/en/site-creation.html">Creating your site</a></li><liclass="navListItem"><aclass="navItem"href="/docs/en/publishing.html">Publishing your site</a></li></ul></div><divclass="navGroup navGroupActive"><h3>Guides</h3><ul><liclass="navListItem"><aclass="navItem"href="/docs/en/blog.html">Adding a Blog</a></li><liclass="navListItem"><aclass="navItem"href="/docs/en/custom-pages.html">Custom Pages</a></li><liclass="navListItem"><aclass="navItem"href="/docs/en/search.html">Enabling Search</a></li><liclass="navListItem"><aclass="navItem"href="/docs/en/navigation.html">Navigation and Sidebars</a></li><liclass="navListItem"><aclass="navItem"href="/docs/en/translation.html">Translations & Localization</a></li><liclass="navListItem"><aclass="navItem"href="/docs/en/versioning.html">Versioning</a></li></ul></div><divclass="navGroup navGroupActive"><h3>API</h3><ul><liclass="navListItem"><aclass="navItem"href="/docs/en/commands.html">CLI Commands</a></li><liclass="navListItem"><aclass="navItem"href="/docs/en/doc-markdown.html">Markdown Features</a
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<p>If you do not want to install the init script globally, you can install it locally and then run it via <code>npx docusaurus-init</code> or from the <code>node_modules</code> directory that is created via <code>./node_modules/.bin/docusaurus-init</code>. You may want to remove the created <code>package.json</code> file and <code>node_modules</code> directory after you run the script.</p>
<p>Running the Docusaurus initialization script, <code>docusaurus-init</code>, produces a runnable, example website to base your site upon.</p>
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<li>In your root, rename <code>docs-examples-from-docusaurus</code> to <code>docs</code>.</li>
<li><code>cd website</code></li>
<li>Rename <code>blog-examples-from-docusaurus</code> to <code>blog</code>.</li>
<li>Run the local webserver via <code>yarn start</code> or <code>npm start</code>.</li>
<li>Load the example site at <ahref="http://localhost:3000">http://localhost:3000</a>. You should see the example site loaded in your web browser.</li>