Ready to create your first website? Already have a website that you want to publish on the p2p Web? This guide is for you.
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Publish a website with Beaker
Open Beaker’s main menu and click “Create new”:
If you’ve already built your website, click “From folder” to import the folder that contains your website:
Otherwise, click “Website” to use Beaker’s basic website template, or click “Empty project” to start from scratch.
Beaker will automatically create a new dat:// website that you can edit using Beaker’s built-in editor or your preferred text editor.
Publish a website with the Dat CLI
Install the Dat CLI:
npm i -g dat
After installing dat, navigate to your website’s directory and run the dat command:
cd ~/src/my-website
dat .
Created new dat in /Users/alice/my-website/.dat
dat://c81299cfc139791ccc6db42f0bcac8a9af590c03828e8066478fcfc60ca6e481
This will create a new dat:// website with your website’s files. Open the dat://` URL in Beaker and you should see your website!