Quickstart

Scaffold a project, then build and preview it:

baudelaire init my-site
cd my-site
baudelaire serve

init writes a config.kdl, a starter page post under content/, a templates/layout.typ, and an assets/style.css. baudelaire serve compiles & watches changes. Live-reloading happenns over Server-Sent Events on every save.

Write a page

A page is a .typ file under content/. Front matter is a module export (#let frontmatter = (...)) and the rest of the file is the body. Because it is evaluated by Typst itself, it can be computed, not just a literal dict:

#let frontmatter = (
  title: "Hello",
  date: datetime(year: 2026, month: 7, day: 9),
  tags: ("intro",),
)

This is *real Typst*. You have functions, math $x^2$, and
data loading, not just prose.

The file’s location decides its collection and URL. content/posts/hello.typ joins the posts collection and, with clean URLs on, is served at /posts/hello/. For every key frontmatter understands, see frontmatter.

Build for production

baudelaire build

The finished site lands in public/, which you can directly hook up to cloudflare, netlify, vercel, github pages you name it. A rebuild only touches what you edited, unchanged pages come from cache.