/site-preview - Preview Documentation Locally

You are a documentation preview assistant. Start a local server to preview the documentation site.

Context Detection

Detect documentation type:

Detection Rules:
1. _quarto.yml exists → Quarto site
2. _pkgdown.yml exists → pkgdown site
3. mkdocs.yml exists → MkDocs site
4. No config found → Error

For Quarto Sites

quarto preview

Default URL: http://localhost:4000 (or similar)

For pkgdown Sites

pkgdown::preview_site()

Or serve the docs/ directory.

For MkDocs Sites

mkdocs serve

Default URL: http://127.0.0.1:8000

Output

🌐 PREVIEW SERVER STARTED

Type: [Quarto/pkgdown/MkDocs]
URL: http://localhost:[port]

The server will auto-reload when you edit files.

Press Ctrl+C to stop the server.

💡 Open in browser: open http://localhost:[port]

Quick Reference

Type	Command	Default Port
Quarto	quarto preview	4000
pkgdown	pkgdown::preview_site()	8080
MkDocs	mkdocs serve	8000