Opening a Terminal Window

Eleventy runs in a Terminal window. If you’re not familiar with Terminal windows, they’re used to run typed commands (and programs) on your computer. A Terminal window is mostly synonymous with terms like Command Line Interface (CLI) or shell prompt.

Here’s how to open a Terminal window in various operating systems:

Mac OS Jump to heading #

Mac OS includes an Application called Terminal.app which can be used to run Eleventy. Depending on your version of Mac OS, it may be in /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app.

• Open or quit Terminal on Mac on the Apple Terminal User Guide

Windows Jump to heading #

Depending on your version of Windows, it may include the Terminal App (aka Windows PowerShell), the Command Prompt (also known as cmd.exe), or both.

Popular Alternatives Jump to heading #

• iTerm2 (Mac OS)

Editors bundled with Terminals Jump to heading #

• Nova (Mac OS)
• Visual Studio Code (Mac OS, Windows, Linux)
  • On Windows, Visual Studio Code is bundled with Windows Powershell.

Other pages in Getting Started:

• Command Line Usage
• Tutorials
  • Quick Tips
• Starter Projects
• Deployment
• Debug Mode
• Programmatic API