Cheat sheet and error fixes for building theme files locally.

Developer Support CMS Development
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I did the HubSpot CMS Best Practices for Developers training and wanted to share my notes incase they are useful to anyone else…

Commands/steps to install

Install hubspot tools and node_modules:
npm install @hubspot/cli

Create yml config file:
npx hs init

Create theme:
npx @hubspot/create-cms-project test-theme

Create template:
npx hs create template templates/basic-page

Upload theme:
npx hs upload test-theme/src test-theme

Watch for updates automatically:
npx hs watch test-theme/src test-theme

Error Fixes

Error: Cannot find module ‘node:path’
Fix: Update node
sudo npm cache clean -f (force) clear your npm cache
sudo npm install -g n install n (this might take a while)
sudo n stable upgrade to the current stable version

Error: yarn not found
Fix: install yarn
npm install --global yarn

Error: xcrun: error: invalid active developer path
Fix: install xcode
xcode-select --install

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Awesome, thanks for sharing @jasoncampbelldv - I also ran into these errors when I switched from PC to Mac and didn’t take the time to resolve them, looking forward to setting up the CLI again to see if I can get it working on my Mac.

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Happy to help! Let me know if you have any questions.