Kirigami
Tutorial · Part 1 of 7

Setup

Scaffold the project and get kiri serving it.

  1. Scaffold from a template

    
                                npx kiri create default studio-plie
                                cd studio-plie

    kiri create clones the default template's repo, deep-merges its package.json, writes what you type into kirigami.yaml, then runs git init and npm install for you. Run npx kiri create --list any time to see the official templates.

  2. Look at what you got

    
                                studio-plie/
                                ├── kirigami.yaml
                                ├── package.json
                                └── src/                 ← kirigami.root
                                    ├── _layouts/        ← header.php / footer.php
                                    ├── _lib/            ← functions.php (tags/hooks/plugins)
                                    ├── _index.php       → index.html
                                    ├── styles/
                                    └── scripts/

    Two naming rules explain the whole tree: a file _name.php compiles to name.html in the same folder (_index.php → index.html); a folder starting with _ is never walked as a page directory — that's where layouts, includes and data live.

  3. Start the dev server

    
                                npx kiri serve

    Leave this running. It rebuilds pages, styles and scripts on every save, serves src/ at http://127.0.0.1:4321, and reloads the open tab once a rebuild finishes — a sass-only change even hot-swaps the stylesheet without a full reload. Open that URL and leave it be for the rest of this tutorial.

NOTE

kiri serve's reload is Server-Sent Events, not a live-reload framework or a WebSocket library — node:http and node:fs are the whole dependency list. The next part turns the single starter page into the three real pages Studio Plié needs.