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Getting Started

The fastest way to start a new Jant site is `create-jant`. It scaffolds a Cloudflare-ready project, generates a local `AUTH_SECRET`, installs dependencies by default, and gives you a working local development setup.

If you want to evaluate Jant without creating a project first, skip to Deploy with Docker.

Prerequisites

  • Node.js 24 or newer
  • A Cloudflare account if you plan to deploy on Workers

Create a New Site

npm create jant@latest my-site
cd my-site

If you prefer pnpm or yarn, use their create command instead. Jant adapts the scaffolded scripts to the package manager you used.

Start Local Development

npm run dev

Open http://localhost:3000.

To use a different local port:

PORT=3030 npm run dev

Complete Setup in the Browser

On first launch, Jant walks you through the initial site setup.

  1. Create your admin account
  2. Set your site name
  3. Choose your language

After that, you can start publishing immediately.

Understand the Default Publishing Model

Before you write the first few posts, one default is worth knowing:

  • /feed points to Featured by default
  • /feed/latest exists separately for the latest public posts
  • Hidden from Latest lets a post stay public on your site without entering that stream

That split is intentional. In Jant, publishing something and broadcasting it are not automatically the same action.

What the Scaffold Already Did

By default, create-jant also:

  • generated .dev.vars with a secure local AUTH_SECRET
  • installed dependencies
  • initialized a git repository
  • created a Cloudflare Workers project with D1 and R2 bindings ready to configure
  • included examples/agent-content-automation/README.md plus site-level agent guidance for scripted publishing

If you passed --no-install or --no-git, do those steps yourself.

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