Snowflake Quickstarts

What are Snowflake Quickstarts?

Snowflake Quickstarts are interactive tutorials and self-serve demos written in markdown syntax. Quickstarts provide a unique step-by-step reading experience and automatically saves tutorial progress for readers. These tutorials are published at quickstarts.snowflake.com

You can submit your own Quickstarts to be published on Snowflake's website by submitting a pull request to this repo. This repository contains all the tools and documentation you’ll need for building, writing, and submitting your own Quickstart!

What's special about the Quickstart format?

Powerful and flexible authoring flow in Markdown text
Ability to produce interactive web or markdown tutorials without writing any code
Easy interactive previewing
Usage monitoring via Google Analytics
Support for multiple target environments or events (conferences, kiosk, web, offline, etc.)
Support for anonymous use - ideal for public computers at developer events
Looks great, with a responsive web implementation
Remembers where the student left off when returning to a quickstarts
Mobile friendly user experience

Getting Started

Prerequisites

Install Node 14; Homebrew installed? brew install node@14
- Install gulp-cli npm i -g gulp-cli
Install Go; Homebrew installed? brew install golang
- Install claat go install github.com/googlecodelabs/tools/claat@latest
Optional: install the live-reload plugin for Chrome: LiveReload

Run locally

Fork this repository to your personal github account (top right of webpage, fork button)
Clone your new fork git clone git@github.com:<YOUR-USERNAME>/sfquickstarts.git sfquickstarts
Navigate to the site directory cd sfquickstarts/site
Install node dependencies npm install
Run the site npm run serve

Congratulations! You now have the Snowflake Quickstarts landing page running.

Common environment errors:

You get a claat not found error
- Make sure Go is properly in your PATH. Add the following lines to your profile (~/.profile, or ~/.zshrc):

#adding Golang to path
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin
export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/go/bin

Note: After adding Go to your PATH, be sure to apply your new profile: source ~/.profile or source ~/.zshrc

You get a EACCES error when installing gulp-cli
- This means that your npm location needs to be updated. Follow the steps here: Resolve EACCESS permissions

Write Your First Quickstart:

Terminate the running server with ctrl C and and navigate to the sfguides source directory cd sfguides/src
- In this directory, you will see all existing guides and their markdown files.
Generate a new guide from the guide template npm run template <GUIDE_NAME>
- Don't use spaces in the name of your guide, instead use underscores.
Navigate to the newly generated guide (cd sfguides/src/<GUIDE_NAME>) and edit your guide in a tool like vscode.
Run the website again npm run serve
As you edit and save changes, your changes will automatically load in the browser.

You can always read the sample Quickstart online.

Tips

Review the sample.md file to learn more about to to structure your Quickstart for the claat tool.
You can see the supported Quickstart categories here. If you want to suggest a new category please create a github issue!
Checkout how to use VS Code to write markdown files
If you want to learn more about Quickstarts, check out this excellent tutorial

How do I get my Snowflake Quickstart on quickstarts.snowflake.com?

You will need to sign Snowflake's CLA
Fork this repository
Clone it to your local system
Make a new branch
Make your changes
Push it back to your repo
Open this repository on GitHub.com
Click the Pull Request button to open a new pull request
Snowflake will review and approve the submission

To learn more how to submit a pull request on GitHub in general, checkout github's official documentation.

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