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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