Quick Start

chord has a starter that allows you to get a fully functional ecommerce site up and running in a few minutes our starter is built on the gatsby framework, so we'll use the gatsby cli this guide assumes you already have node js and git installed on your machine if you don't, there are some helpful instructions in gatsby's documentation configure access to chord's private github repositories in order to install the necessary chord packages, follow the guide below on how to configure your package manager to access chord's packages npm access for @chordcommerce packages docid\ fm833n8omgr3pwlk8hvpq create a new site click the "use this template" button on the starter github repository to create a new github repository in your account with the same files and folders, or fork the repo then clone your new repo onto your local machine \# with git git clone git\@github com \<your account>/gatsby starter autonomy git \# or with the github cli gh repo clone \<your account>/gatsby starter autonomy configure your site's environment cp env example env you'll need to populate this env file with some environment variables, including your shopify storefront access token and credentials to your contentful space talk to the chord team to get these start your development server install project dependencies yarn yarn install npm npm install legacy peer deps after installation is complete, start the development server yarn yarn start # starts site at http //localhost 8000 npm npm start # starts site at http //localhost 8000 you can see your new site at http //localhost 8000 hot reload is enabled by default that's it! you're off and running ✨