Once you’ve [[initialized]] Quartz, let’s see what it looks like locally:

npx quartz build --serve

This will start a local web server to run your Quartz on your computer. Open a web browser and visit http://localhost:8080/ to view it.

[!hint] Flags and options For full help options, you can run npx quartz build --help.

Most of these have sensible defaults but you can override them if you have a custom setup:

• -d or --directory: the content folder. This is normally just content
• -v or --verbose: print out extra logging information
• -o or --output: the output folder. This is normally just public
• --serve: run a local hot-reloading server to preview your Quartz
• --port: what port to run the local preview server on
• --concurrency: how many threads to use to parse notes

[!warning] Not to be used for production Serve mode is intended for local previews only. For production workloads, see the page on [[hosting]].