This tutorial will show you how to set up your own help center. At the end, you will have the help center running locally. The next section then shows how to edit the content. And the final step shows how to deploy the help center to the internet, so that anyone can access it.

Preparation

Make sure you have node.js and npm installed. You can test that by running node --version and npm --version.

Install the gatsby-cli

Install the gatsby-cli if you don’t have it already.

npm install --global gatsby-cli

Create a new Gatsby site

Create a new Gatsby site, using gatsby-starter-help-center as the template.

gatsby new help-center dferber90/gatsby-starter-help-center

This command will create a folder called help-center in the current directory and copy the contents of gatsby-starter-help-center into it. Then it will install the necessary dependencies for you.

And that’s it! You now have a version of the help center ready to be run locally. Read the next article to see how to run the help center locally.