Start the Toolkit

After you Install the Storefront Toolkit, you can start it from the command line to begin work on your theme.

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If you have recently upgraded your Toolkit to version 4.0 from an earlier version, you may receive warnings and error messages when you start it. For instructions on how to resolve these warnings and errors, see Upgrading to 4.0 and later.

When the Toolkit starts, it launches a web server and provides its URL. You can go to this URL in a web browser to see the effect of your changes to the theme as you make them. You Use the developer toolbar to perform various tasks, like importing data from the marketplace for display in your storefront.

To run the Storefront Toolkit

1. Open a command-line window.

2. Go to the workspace directory—that is, the _themeFolderName_ directory you created during installation.

3. Type sfb-toolkit start and press Enter. Wait for the command to start the service, indicated by the following message:
   AppDirect Toolkit is running, you can view your storefront preview at: http://localhost:3555/en-US/home

4. Open a browser and go to http://localhost:3555/en-US/home. The storefront opens and the developer tool appears on the right side of the page.

5. You can now edit the storefront pages in the text editor, and see the changes appear in the browser.

   Note Leave the command-line window open with the start command running. To run other commands, open a new window.

For more inforation about the developer tool, see Use the developer toolbar.