Command Line Interface

To discover what commands are available:
docpad --help
To create your website (if it doesn't already exist), watch for changes, and start the webserver, use:
docpad run
To just generate your website from one of the existing skeletons, use:
docpad scaffold
To just generate your compiled website, use:
docpad generate
To just watch your website for changes and re-generate whenever a change is made, use:
docpad watch
To just run the DocPad server to access your already generated website, use:
docpad server
To render standalone files with DocPad programmatically (will output to stdout)
docpad render filePath
For example, to render a markdown file and save the result to an output file, we would use:
docpad render inputMarkdownFile.html.md > outputMarkdownFile.html
To render stdin with DocPad programmatically (will output to stdout)
echo $content | docpad render sampleFileNameWithExtensions
For example, to render passed markdown content and save the result to a file, we would use:
echo "**awesome**" | docpad render input.html.md > output.html
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