# CMS for Developers Practicum Help

**URL:** <https://community.hubspot.com/t/cms-for-developers-practicum-help/100593>\
**Category:** CMS Development\
**Tags:** professional\
**Created:** [February 20, 2024, 9:10pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/cms-for-developers-practicum-help/100593 "2024-02-20T21:10:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![drewspotshubs](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/drewspotshubs/32/64986_2.png) [@drewspotshubs](https://community.hubspot.com/u/drewspotshubs)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2024, 9:10pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/cms-for-developers-practicum-help/100593/1 "2024-02-20T21:10:22Z")

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I’m a marketer/wannabe developer trying to pass the CMS for Developers course. I went and completed a Codecademy Javascript course first before diving in here, and in past jobs I was primarily a front-end web developer (html/css).

Wrapping my brain around the Html+Hubl stuff makes sense, but one thing is that I am not used to developing from a command line.

In the training videos, it \*looks\* like you can do it all from within the Hubspot platform, but I haven’t found that true yet. While every other resource shows it being super easily from a command line, and you can drop in a “hs ‘something something’” command and a blank module/template/page just drops in, ready to edit. But in Hubspot, you can only make a blank html/hubl file, which isn’t pre-populated with much of anything.  
Hoping to (A) not have to figure out how to deploy a CLI (which would require involving our IT dept. in all of this) but also (B) have the benefits of the easy file deployment from within Hubspot.  
Any advice is helpful.

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**Author:** ![jnix284](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/jnix284/32/29_2.png) [@jnix284](https://community.hubspot.com/u/jnix284)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2024, 10:10pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/cms-for-developers-practicum-help/100593/2 "2024-02-20T22:10:16Z")

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Hi @drewspotshubs I’m also a marketer with dev experience and am currently working on my practicum as well.

I am building the theme fully from Design Tools (no CLI) and it’s working as expected.

Because we can’t build from the boilerplate, all of the templates are going to be pretty blank and we have to code it all from scratch.

I don’t think that there is additional code when using the CLI (I compared with our developer), the difference from the videos and now are changes to the template creation process directly, not where you’re building from.