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id: guide_installation
title: Installation
sidebar_label: Installation
---

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### Install via script

The easiest way to install Dochameleon is by using script `dochameleon-init`

First install the script

```
npm install --global dochameleon-init
```

Then, go to the folder that your'd like to create the documentation website, run

```
dochameleon-init
cd website
npm run start
```

The init script does three things: create `website` folder; npm install `dochameleon` package; copy a basic example website to start from.


### Manual installation

If you do not want `dochameleon-init`, rather create website manually.

- Create and go into the `website` folder
- Create package.json with content,
```
{
  "scripts": {
    "examples": "dochameleon-examples"
  }
}
```
- Install Dochameleon, run
```
npm install dochameleon
```

- Init with basic example, run
```
npm run examples
```

### Run Local Dev Server

Once installation completed, a website with example content is ready to go. Just run

```
npm run start
```

### File Structure

Once installation successful, here is the file structure you'll have under the `website` folder

```bash
website/
├── blog/
│   ├── 2018-01-08-why-dochameleon.md
│   └── 2018-01-10-staging-step.md
├── components/
├── docs/
│   ├── doc1.md
│   ├── doc2.md
│   ├── doc3.md
│   └── sidebars.json
├── pages/
│   ├── help.js
│   ├── index.js
│   └── users.js
├── siteConfig.js
├── static/
└── theme/
```
