Installing Curvenote

The Curvenote CLI is published on npm as curvenote and runs on Node.js 20.19, 22.12 or 24 (or a later release in those lines). If you don’t have Node.js yet, follow Installing Node.js first.

🛠️ Install the CLI globally:

npm install -g curvenote

This adds two commands to your PATH: curvenote, and cn, a shorter name for the same thing. Check that it worked by printing the version:

curvenote --version

Run curvenote on its own, or curvenote <command> --help, to list the commands and their options; the same list is in the command reference.

Updating Curvenote¶

New releases come out every few weeks. Update to the latest with:

npm update -g curvenote

Run curvenote --version before and after to see the change, and compare it with the latest version on npm. If the version doesn’t change, uninstall it with npm uninstall -g curvenote (and without -g if you also installed it in a project) until curvenote is no longer on your command line, then install it again.

Next steps¶

Sign in if you will deploy or submit to Curvenote; building and previewing work without an account. Then install the VS Code extension for help writing MyST, and create your first project with curvenote init.