Pen

Pen is a CLI tool that allows you to run a local server to write and publish content for your Astro.js blogs.

Setup

Pen requires a GitHub Access Token to get write and commit your content to a repository.

The GitHub Access Token is only stored in a config file on your system

1. Once you have installed Pen run the auth command, this will setup your config file:

pen auth <github-access-token>

2. Setup the repo you would like to write content for with:

pen setup GitHubUsername/RepoName

You can run the setup command multiple times to setup multiple repos.

Usage

Once you have completed setup, you can start the server to start writing content with:

pen start

Navigate to http://localhost:8000 to view the writing UI.

Helper Commands

• pen config will print your config file
• pen reset will clear your config file