Validating your Ghost theme is handled efficiently with the GScan tool. GScan will check your theme for errors, deprecations and compatibility issues. GScan is used in several ways:
- The GScan site is your first port of call to test any themes that you’re building to get a full validation report
- When a theme is uploaded in Ghost admin, it will automatically be checked with
gscanand any fatal errors will prevent the theme from being used gscanis also used as a command line tool
Command line
To use GScan as a command line tool, globally install the gscan npm package:
# Install the npm package
npm install -g gscan
# Use gscan <file path> anywhere to run gscan against a folder
gscan /path/to/ghost/content/themes/casper
# Run gscan on a zip file
gscan -z /path/to/download/theme.zip
