Start working with your website locally

Makes your changes locally and easily send them to UC, choose how to work

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Work locally with Visual Studio

For developers who use Visual Studio and Umbraco with code from external projects, we offer a setup script which will create and configure a complete Visual Studio solution. The solution will use the git repostiory from Umbraco Cloud making deployments as simple as pushing the changes from your local solution to the remote Umbraco Cloud environment.


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Work locally with Grunt or Gulp

Umbraco Cloud provides a fast way to syncronise design changes, directly from your local machine, it works by running a node.js command, which will connect to your remote website and start syncing file changes. For a fast view on how your changes will be applied, a local browser window will show changes as they sync

1. Make a initial git clone of your site

Use a git client like source tree or git kraken to clone your UC workspace, use the git url below

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2. Install the node.js module

Run the below command in a terminal, to instal the node.js module, this will make a command called 'uaas' available in your terminal

npm install uaas-cli -g

3. Run the uaas command and sync changes

Open a terminal in the root folder of your cloned website, then run the command:

uaas watch

Follow onscreen instructions to authenticate and start making changes to your local files - a browser window will open and display changes as they are applied to your website.


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Git Clone

Use a git client like SourceTree or GitKraken to clone your UC workspace, using the git url below

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This will pull down all your website files to your local machine, you can now make local changes and push them back to Umbraco Cloud when they are ready to go live, using nothing but a standard git client


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