Netlify CLI

Welcome to the Netlify CLI! The new 2.0 version was rebuilt from the ground up to help improve the site building experience.

⚠️ If you are looking for docs or to report an issue on Netlify Dev, head to the netlify-dev-plugin repo. This is a new release, we appreciate your patience and bug reports!

Table of Contents

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• Installation
• Usage
• Documentation
• Commands
  • deploy
  • init
  • link
  • login
  • open
  • sites
  • status
  • unlink
  • watch
  • dev
  • functions
• Contributing
• Development
• License

Installation

Netlify CLI requires Node.js version 8 or above. To install, run the following command from any directory in your terminal:

npm install netlify-cli -g

Alternatively you may also use Homebrew: brew install netlify-cli (thanks @cglong).

Usage

Installing the CLI globally provides access to the netlify command.

netlify [command]

# Run `help` for detailed information about CLI commands
netlify [command] help

Documentation

To learn how to log in to Netlify and start deploying sites, visit the documentation on Netlify.

For a full command reference, see the list below, or visit cli.netlify.com.

Commands

deploy

Create a new deploy from the contents of a folder

init

Configure continuous deployment for a new or existing site

link

Link a local repo or project folder to an existing site on Netlify

login

Login to your Netlify account

open

Open settings for the site linked to the current folder

Subcommand	description
open:admin	Opens current site admin UI in Netlify
open:site	Opens current site url in browser

sites

Handle various site operations

Subcommand	description
sites:create	Create an empty site (advanced)
sites:delete	Delete a site
sites:list	List all sites you have access to

status

Print status information

Subcommand	description
status:hooks	Print hook information of the linked site

unlink

Unlink a local folder from a Netlify site

watch

Watch for site deploy to finish

dev

Local dev server

Subcommand	description
dev:exec	Exec command

functions

Manage netlify functions

Subcommand	description
functions:build	build functions locally
functions:create	create a new function locally
functions:invoke	trigger a function while in netlify dev with simulated data, good for testing function calls including Netlify's Event Triggered Functions

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for more info on how to make contributions to this project.

Development

You'll need to follow these steps to run Netlify CLI locally:

uninstall any globally installed versions of netlify-cli
clone and install deps for https://github.com/netlify/cli
npm link from inside the cli folder

Now you're both ready to start testing and to contribute to the project!

License

MIT. See LICENSE for more details.