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title: Welcome to Quartz 4

Quartz is a fast, batteries-included static-site generator that transforms Markdown content into fully functional websites. Thousands of students, developers, and teachers are [[showcase|already using Quartz]] to publish personal notes, wikis, and digital gardens to the web.

🪴 Get Started

Quartz requires at least Node v18.14 to function correctly. Ensure you have this installed on your machine before continuing.

Then, in your terminal of choice, enter the following commands line by line:

git clone https://github.com/jackyzha0/quartz.git
cd quartz
git checkout v4-alpha
npm i
npx quartz create

This will guide you through initializing your Quartz with content. Once you've done so, see how to [[build]] and [[hosting|host]] Quartz.

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Coming from Quartz 3? See the [[migrating from Quartz 3|migration guide]] for the differences between Quartz 3 and Quartz 4 and how to migrate.

🔧 Features

• [[full-text search|Full-text search]], [[graph view]], [[backlinks]], [[Latex]], [[syntax highlighting]], [[popover previews]], and many more right out of the box
• Hot-reload for both configuration and content
• Simple JSX [[creating components|layouts and page components]]
• [[SPA Routing|Ridiculously fast page loads]] and tiny bundle sizes
• Fully-customizable parsing, filtering, and page generation through [[making plugins|plugins]]

For a comprehensive list of features, visit the features page. You can read more the why behind these features on the [[philosophy]] page.

🚧 Troubleshooting

Having trouble with Quartz? Try searching for your issue using the search feature. If you're still having trouble, feel free to submit an issue if you feel you found a bug or ask for help in our Discord Community.