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Getting Started

Before proceeding with the tutorial section below, let's get the template app up and running locally:

1. Install Nix¹ and enable Flakes
2. Clone the template repository locally
3. Run bin/run² and access the site at http://localhost:9001

That should start the Ema dev server displaying a simple website. Go ahead and try modifying either the Markdown content in ./content or the Haskell source in ./src/Main.hs, and observe how the web view updates instantly.

{.last} [Next]{.next}, in the tutorial let's try using this template repo to create a basic website.

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1. Nix is optional, though it provides the best development experience. The template repository may work with plain cabal, but this is not officially tested. ↩︎

2. If you are using cabal rather than Nix, run ghcid in place of bin/run. ↩︎