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We have a manual setup guide in the docs. So, we could add a link to that section for people having trouble with However, this is not exactly the same as the minimal template used in the tutorial. Perhaps we could update step 3 of the manual setup section to show a page closer to the one used in the minimal template (ie. include the The other solution would be to tell people to download https://github.com/withastro/astro/tree/main/examples/minimal but those who are not used to Github/Git might have trouble to do that since there is no download button... |
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All of our templates are available on https://astro.new/latest/ , which is maybe a friendly way to get people to our minimal (empty) template. And, from there, you can even open the template in an online IDE such as StackBlitz, IDX/Firebase Studio, or Gitpod. Is there a way to somehow incorporate the astro.new site for people who are unable to run create Astro? (Will also note it's entirely possible to take the tutorial completely online in the browser, too.) In fact, waaaaaay back when, that's how I "created" my very first Astro project! I forked a template on CodeSandbox, pushed that up to my GitHub account as a personal repo, and started from that. So, certainly |
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At this moment,
create-astrois unusable in corporate environments behind a proxy (withastro/astro#13684). Anyone following the tutorial in such an environment (which is a very plausible case) will therefore instantly fail at step 1. For cases like this, there should be an optional section describing how to create the minimal baseline project ifnpm create astrois not available.It could be a reference to downloading and extracting the project template from GitHub manually (the link for this is shown in
create-astro's error report), or it could be a more detailed description of what files need to be set up and for what reason (this could be independently useful and educational!)Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
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