Thea » Quickstart

Thea is capable of a lot, but needs very little to Just Work™. I’ve put together a starter kit that, I hope, both covers some of the more common use-cases and gives a little insight into just how powerful Thea’s templating is (thanks to Tera).

Install Thea

The command below assumes you have Rust installed. If you’re new to the language, not to worry: Rust is 1-command-install.

$ cargo install thea

Clone the starter kit

$ git clone https://github.com/elliotekj/thea-starter my_new_site
$ cd my_new_site

Start Thea

Thea will start on port 8765 by default. The --dev flag disables caching.

$ thea --dev

Make changes

Thea watches the content/ and templates/ folders and will refresh the HashMap if any changes are made.

Note: Changes in config/ require a server restart.

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Hi, I'm Elliot 👋

I’m a product designer turned software developer keen on building, problem solving, performance and databases. As can be seen by the articles here, my interest in recent years has been in the Swift and Rust ecosystems. I still mostly write Swift professionally (and would love the opportunity to write Rust professionally), but I also believe the wonderful Elixir has a very bright future and am focussing a lot on that at the moment too.

I currently freelance but am interested in joining a team full-time writing Rust and/or Elixir. If your team is hiring, please get in touch!