Need some beginner handholding

[tight patio]

I might be completely biting off more than I can chew but I'm trying to set up a new website with Astro. I have little to no coding experience — only a little bit of HTML/css experience. I've finally figured out what the terminal is (lol) and downloaded node.js

However, for the life of me, I cannot get this command to work
npm create astro@latest -- --template <example-name>

I want to load the template here: https://astro.build/themes/details/astro-neumorphismt/
So I'm typing in my terminal:
npm create astro@latest -- --template <astro-neumorphismt>
But receiving the following error message:
zsh: parse error near `\n'

Help?

[silk pelican]

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[nova summit]

You also have to remove the brackets <> likes this: npm create astro@latest -- --template astro-neumorphismt

[tight patio]

@nova summit You have saved my sanity (for the time being). Thank you 🙏

@nova summit while I still have you..hope you don't mind one more question. I was watching Youtube tutorials and once the "launch sequence initiates", people type in the project name for the first question of "where should we create your new project?". Is that standard practice? Or should I direct it to say...a folder on my desktop?

[nova summit]

Yes it is standard practice to just pass a name, the project is created inside the directory your cmd is pointing to

You can use the cd command to navigate folders inside your cmd

[tight patio]

Noted. Thanks again 🙌

[nova summit]

One trick I like to use is to navigate to the folder I want to create my project in and, type cmd into the box I circled, then hit enter and it will pull up a command prompt pointing to that directory. I find it easier than using cd

[tight patio]

That seems like a super helpful tip...unfortunately I'm using a macbook so not sure I have the same functionality

Unfortunately keep running into more roadblocks haha...not sure what it means by "template does not exist" — I tried both directly typing in the template name (it is a standard template) and typing it in by referencing the github username