Static Website Setup

1. Create project directory

Create a new project directory and change your working directory to it. You can use the following commands on the command line:

mkdir project-name
cd project-name

2. Run Chisel

Run Chisel from the project directory

chisel create

Insert project name (you can use the default one based on the working directory name), author, and select Front-end Templates project type. Select browsers you're supporting, optional additional features (see below) and wait until the installation completes.

Additional features are available during installation, they can be also enabled later in chisel.config.js:

• Serve dist directory in dev / don't generate pages index: by default chisel generates index page with pages you create outside of the dist directory, this may be useful when you're working on static templates that somebody will later work on (for example different developer will integrate with backend). If you're working on a website that'll be deployed from the Chisel project it's probably good to enable this to match dev server behavior with the deployed site.
• Don't include html extension in links (posts API) & support them in dev: When enabled dev server will support urls without html extension. Additionally, when working with content html extension will be omitted from generated links.

To speed up the installation process we recommend using Yarn. Chisel will automatically detect it and run if possible. Otherwise, it falls back to the default NPM install

3. Setting up an existing project

If you are joining the development of an existing front-end project which was already set up with Chisel, you don't have to set it up again. Follow these steps:

1. Clone repository
2. Run npm install or yarn
3. Run npm run build and npm run dev