is it possible to run a quarto server to speed up document conversion？

[plmcoder]

Description

I'm now using Quarto to generate some html files & pptx & pdf files and show as a website.
but the data changes very often and user needs to see the result more quickly.

I found it's very long time to start quarto and then do transfer.
quarto preview xxx.qmd seems works but still start slowly.

is it possible to start a quarto service at backend to speed up this process?
does quarto already support this?

[mcanouil]

Quarto is a command line interface.
There is no "server".

I found it's very long time to start quarto and then do transfer.
quarto preview xxx.qmd seems works but still start slowly.

Very unclear what you mean here.

What do you mean by "start quarto" or "transfer"? There is no "start". You only run the command.
quarto preview does not simply render it also watches files for changes. This is mostly for interactive use.

[plmcoder]

yes "start quarto" means run quarto preview' command, I mean is it possible to start a daemon process, and then when we have to run quarto preivew`, we could get the command more quickly finished.

because I found when run quarto command, the command will stuck for a long time before the convert begin.

[plmcoder]

like Jupyter notebook daemon service or Jupyter server.