Sites built with the Carbon Gatsby theme starter come ready to go with some helpful npm scripts. You can run these commands by typing

yarn [command]

or

npm run [command]

Clean

clean - this is used to clean gatsby’s cache and public directory. It should be used sparingly, only when you’re experiencing weird errors or caching issues.

Develop

dev - this is your primary for starting up your gatsby site for development
dev:clean - this is provided as a convenience; it first runs
```
clean
```
then
```
dev
```

Build

build - this is what you’ll use to bundle your site. Gatsby will minimize your images and create a static, blazing fast site in your
```
public
```
directory
serve - this can be run to serve the bundle locally after running
```
build
```
. It can be used to debug locally if any issues are encountered durring build.
build:clean - this is a provided as a convenience, it first runs
```
clean
```
then
```
build
```

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