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title: "Building your Quartz"

Once you've [[index#🪴 Get Started|initialized]] Quartz, let's see what it looks like locally.

npx quartz build --serve

Then, open a web browser and visit http://localhost:8080/ to view it.

Want to change how Quartz looks? You can edit quartz.config.ts to customize and configure your Quartz, including styles, layout, and more. Read the [[configuration]] page for more information on what each field in the configuration does.

Once you're happy with it, let's see how to [[hosting|deploy Quartz to the web]].

[!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