Welcome to the Grow SDK, the declarative file-based CMS and static site generator for building high-quality web sites.

Grow is almost certainly the best way for teams to build and launch web sites. It works great for all kinds of content-heavy web sites – from small personal blogs, to highly-interactive marketing campaigns, to informational web sites for a large organization.

Grow differentiates itself by being:

• entirely file-based and backed by Git (so it works with your favorite tools),
• the best and easiest way to develop content-heavy localized websites,
• designed for true structured content management,
• designed with web performance and security in mind,
• designed with first-party i18n support,
• designed for developers, designers, content writers, and translators to work together.

Visit the Grow SDK's website at http://growsdk.org where you can learn all about using the Grow SDK to build and launch your own web sites.

The Grow SDK is still under development and is considered experimental. We may make backwards-incompatible changes to the API and design until v0.1.0. Please consult the documentation at http://growsdk.org, join the mailing list, give it a try, and provide feedback.

Full documentation is available at https://growsdk.org, but this four-step process covers the basic workflow. See a full list of commands using: grow --help.

(1) Install Grow. You will be prompted to continue.

curl https://install.growsdk.org | bash

(2) Initialize a new pod using the "codelab" theme.

grow init codelab codelab
cd codelab

(3) Run a development web server for live editing and previewing.

grow run

(4) Build your site.

grow build

By using the installer from install.growsdk.org, you can take advantage of the autoupdater. If you'd prefer to build yourself or install Grow another way (such as pip), see installation alternatives.

We welcome pull requests, themes, bug fixes, feature suggestions, cake, and any other sort of feedback.

We use GitHub to track issues. Feel free to browse issues and look for any issues pertaining to the features you'd like to work on and claim them. If the feature warrants discussion, conduct a discussion with the project authors in the GitHub issue or on the mailing list.

For contributors, Grow includes a setup script to help you get a development environment setup for running the tests and executing the command line tools. The setup script helps install pip, virtualenv, and all of the libraries required to perform development.

git clone git@github.com:grow/pygrow.git       # Clones this repo.
cd pygrow
./scripts/setup                                # Runs setup script.

Once installed, you can...

./scripts/test                                 # Runs tests.
./scripts/grow                                 # Runs `grow` command line program.

From a fresh system, you may need a few things to build a Grow release from scratch:

sudo apt-get install python-dev python-pip libffi-dev g++ git libxml2-dev libxslt-dev libssl-dev zip
sudo pip install pyinstaller

# Installs Grow in Python's site-packages directory.
sudo pip install grow

# Or, install Grow for a single user.
pip install --user grow

# If you have Grow already, upgrade it.
pip install --upgrade [--user] grow

# Or, build from source.
git clone git@github.com:grow/pygrow.git
cd pygrow
pip install -r requirements.txt
python setup.py install

To run Grow's unit tests, run from the project's root directory:

./scripts/test                                # Runs unit tests.
./scripts/test_services                       # Runs service tests.

The Grow SDK is released under the MIT License and it is lovingly developed by the Grow SDK Project Authors. Our mission is to bring joy to building and launching high-quality web sites.