{"id": "contributing:contributing-using-fixtures", "page": "contributing", "ref": "contributing-using-fixtures", "title": "Using fixtures", "content": "To run Datasette itself, type  datasette . \n             You're going to need at least one SQLite database. A quick way to get started is to use the fixtures database that Datasette uses for its own tests. \n             You can create a copy of that database by running this command: \n             python tests/fixtures.py fixtures.db \n             Now you can run Datasette against the new fixtures database like so: \n             datasette fixtures.db \n             This will start a server at  http://127.0.0.1:8001/ . \n             Any changes you make in the  datasette/templates  or  datasette/static  folder will be picked up immediately (though you may need to do a force-refresh in your browser to see changes to CSS or JavaScript). \n             If you want to change Datasette's Python code you can use the  --reload  option to cause Datasette to automatically reload any time the underlying code changes: \n             datasette --reload fixtures.db \n             You can also use the  fixtures.py  script to recreate the testing version of  metadata.json  used by the unit tests. To do that: \n             python tests/fixtures.py fixtures.db fixtures-metadata.json \n             Or to output the plugins used by the tests, run this: \n             python tests/fixtures.py fixtures.db fixtures-metadata.json fixtures-plugins\nTest tables written to fixtures.db\n- metadata written to fixtures-metadata.json\nWrote plugin: fixtures-plugins/register_output_renderer.py\nWrote plugin: fixtures-plugins/view_name.py\nWrote plugin: fixtures-plugins/my_plugin.py\nWrote plugin: fixtures-plugins/messages_output_renderer.py\nWrote plugin: fixtures-plugins/my_plugin_2.py \n             Then run Datasette like this: \n             datasette fixtures.db -m fixtures-metadata.json --plugins-dir=fixtures-plugins/", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Contributing\"]", "references": "[]"}