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title: Welcome to Quartz

Quartz is a framework for turning Markdown content into a website.

• reduce the friction to go from notes to site
• should work for everyone, from non-technical people to senior developers
• customizability and extensibility

See some of the amazing gardens that community members have published with Quartz or read about [[philosophy|why I made Quartz]] to begin with.

[!info] You are currently looking at the documentation for Quartz 4
If you're looking for Quartz 3, you can find the source for that version on the hugo branch. Alternatively, you can browse an archived version of the old documentation on the Wayback Machine.

Installation

Ready to get started?

Prerequisites:
- Node >v16

git clone https://github.com/jackyzha0/quartz.git
cd quartz
npm i
npx quartz create