Welcome to Lancer

Quick Start

To create a project from scratch:

$ mkdir my-proj && cd my-proj
$ npm init -y
$ npm install @lancer/studio
$ npx lancer init all
$ npm run dev

Now visit localhost:7272 to view your new project.

Core Concepts

Here are some core principles Lancer adheres to:

• Content always starts with an html file. No special file types to learn or remember.
• No new syntaxes. Use the HTML you already know and love, plus basic interpolation brackets.
• Automatic, no-config JavaScript and CSS bundling.
• Intuitive server-side JavaScript when you need it.

To get started with Lancer, check out the Project Structure doc page.

When Should You Use Lancer?

Lancer is ideal for content-based websites. This includes websites such as:

• Landing / marketing websites
• Documentation websites
• Company websites
• Personal blogs

Lancer DOES NOT cater to fully-JS-rendered apps. If you're building a full-fledged web app, I suggest using Lancer for your landing, marketing, about, etc. pages, and then something like Ruby on Rails or Next.js for your heavy application code on an app.example.com subdomain.

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