Working with Mac

One of the features built into Umbraco Cloud is the ability to work locally with your Umbraco site - without having a Windows machine with a local web server installed on it. This enables people on Mac or Linux-based OS to use their favorite editor to modify code in their Umbraco Cloud site.
The Mac Solution
To work with Mac:
1.On the Umbraco Cloud portal, go to your project and clone the site using your favorite Git client.
2.Configure a SQL Server connection string using ConnectionStrings in appsettings.json or appsettings.Development.json (the launchSettings.json configures the local instance to run as 'Development'):
"ConnectionStrings": {
    "umbracoDbDSN": ""
}
3.Additionally, it's recommended to configure the local instance to install unattended with the following settings in appsettings.Development.json:
{
"Umbraco": {
    "CMS": {
    "Unattended": {
        "InstallUnattended": true,
        "UnattendedUserName": "",
        "UnattendedUserEmail": "",
        "UnattendedUserPassword": ""
    }
    }
}
}
The UserName, Email, and Password are optional properties and only needed if you want to set up a local backoffice user. You can use your Umbraco Id to sign in to the backoffice.
1.On the terminal, navigate to src/UmbracoProject folder and run the following commands to start the project:
dotnet build
dotnet run
2.When running the site for the first time, the database schema is automatically inserted into the database (with "InstallUnattended": true in appsettings.Development.json), so the site starts up ready for use.
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