diff --git a/website/docs/getting-started/build-a-sample-app.mdx b/website/docs/getting-started/build-a-sample-app.mdx
index eaae122882d..54e80e06b5e 100644
--- a/website/docs/getting-started/build-a-sample-app.mdx
+++ b/website/docs/getting-started/build-a-sample-app.mdx
@@ -8,12 +8,23 @@ the boilerplate needed for a basic Yew app or manually set up a small project.
 ## Using a starter template
 
 Install [`cargo-generate`](https://github.com/cargo-generate/cargo-generate) by following their installation instructions
-then run the following command:
+then take the following steps:
+
+### Checkout and customize project
 
 ```shell
 cargo generate --git https://github.com/yewstack/yew-trunk-minimal-template
 ```
 
+### Run project
+
+```shell
+trunk serve
+```
+
+> **Note**
+Trunk [has a bug](https://github.com/trunk-rs/trunk/issues/852) on windows when `trunk serve` command fails. To workaround the issue you can run `trunk build` before running `trunk serve`.
+
 ## Setting up the application manually
 
 ### Create Project
diff --git a/website/versioned_docs/version-0.21/getting-started/build-a-sample-app.mdx b/website/versioned_docs/version-0.21/getting-started/build-a-sample-app.mdx
index eaae122882d..e35b63ff7b3 100644
--- a/website/versioned_docs/version-0.21/getting-started/build-a-sample-app.mdx
+++ b/website/versioned_docs/version-0.21/getting-started/build-a-sample-app.mdx
@@ -8,12 +8,28 @@ the boilerplate needed for a basic Yew app or manually set up a small project.
 ## Using a starter template
 
 Install [`cargo-generate`](https://github.com/cargo-generate/cargo-generate) by following their installation instructions
-then run the following command:
+then take the following steps:
+
+### Checkout and customize project
 
 ```shell
 cargo generate --git https://github.com/yewstack/yew-trunk-minimal-template
 ```
 
+### Build project
+
+This step is only needed when this guide has been run on Microsoft windows.
+
+```shell
+trunk build
+```
+
+### Run project
+
+```shell
+trunk serve
+```
+
 ## Setting up the application manually
 
 ### Create Project