test ssr locally

[vivid wing]

is there a way to test my astro site for netlify locally on my machine?

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Hi @vivid wing. I'm kapa.ai, your friendly support bot. I will try to answer your question by searching through the knowledge base. :wave:

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Yes, you can test your Astro site locally on your machine before deploying it to Netlify. Here are the steps:

1. First, you need to build your Astro site locally. Run the command npm run build in your terminal. This will create a dist/ directory which contains the build output of your site.

npm run build

If you want to change the output directory, you can do so using the outDir configuration option in your astro.config.mjs file.

2. After building your site, you can preview it locally. However, the specific command to do this isn't provided in the extracts. You would typically use a command like npm run serve or use a local server like http-server to serve your dist/ directory.

3. If you want to test Netlify functions locally, you can use the Netlify CLI (https://cli.netlify.com/). After installing it, you can use the netlify dev command to start a local dev server with Netlify functions.

npm install --global netlify-cli
netlify dev

Remember, this is just a local test. To make your site live, you will need to deploy it to Netlify.

Sources:

• Building Your Site Locally (https://docs.astro.build/en/guides/deploy/)
• Deploy your Astro Site to Netlify (https://docs.astro.build/en/guides/deploy/netlify/)
• Netlify CLI (https://cli.netlify.com/)

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