Beacon

Installation

Get a Beacon site running locally in under two minutes.

Beacon ships as a standard Astro project. If you can run npm install, you can run Beacon.

Prerequisites

  • Node.js 18.17+ (or 20+). Check with node --version.
  • A package manager — npm, pnpm, or bun all work.

Install

Install dependencies from the project root:

npm install

Run the dev server

npm run dev

Open http://localhost:4321. The dev server hot-reloads on every change to a doc, component, or config file.

Build for production

npm run build

This outputs a fully static site to dist/. Preview the production build locally with:

npm run preview

Available scripts

ScriptPurpose
npm run devStart the local dev server
npm run buildBuild the static site to dist/
npm run previewServe the production build locally

That’s it — no environment variables, no API keys, no services to provision. Next, learn the Project Structure.