---
title: Welcome to Quartz
---

Quartz is a framework for turning Markdown content into a website.

- reduce the friction to go from notes to site
- should work for everyone, from non-technical people to senior developers
- customizability and extensibility

See some of the [amazing gardens that community members](showcase.md) have published with Quartz or read about [[philosophy|why I made Quartz]] to begin with.

> [!info] You are currently looking at the documentation for Quartz 4
> If you're looking for Quartz 3, you can find the source for that version on the `hugo` branch. Alternatively, you can browse [an archived version of the old documentation on the Wayback Machine](https://web.archive.org/web/20230628023708/https://quartz.jzhao.xyz/).

## Installation
Ready to get started?

Prerequisites:
- Node >v16

```shell
git clone https://github.com/jackyzha0/quartz.git
cd quartz
npm i
npx quartz create
```