netlify/cli
Cli
This developer command-line tool manages deployments, configures serverless functions, and provisions resources for a cloud hosting platform. It provides a terminal utility to automate project deployment, environment variable management, and database provisioning for web applications, while also serving as a local development server that simulates production routing and proxy rules.
The tool handles deployment workflows by synchronizing web projects through file hashing, artifact caching, and real-time progress tracking. It coordinates serverless function lifecycles with hot reloading across multiple language runtimes, maps URL patterns for instant execution, and integrates third-party extensions to modify build steps and command-line functionality.
Additional capabilities cover team and project administration, automated AI assistant tasks, environment variable merging with precedence rules, object storage management, and live log streaming.
Features
- Command Line Interfaces - Provides a developer command-line interface for managing cloud hosting projects and deployments.
- Deployment Sync Engines - Uploads web projects efficiently through file hashing, artifact caching, and real-time progress tracking.
- Serverless Project Deployments - Uploads and publishes web projects directly to hosting infrastructure.
- Relational Database Provisioning - Sets up a production-ready relational database, runs migrations, resets data, and connects locally with a single command.
- Local Development Environments - Runs a local development server that mimics production routing, proxy rules, and serverless executions.
- Local Development Servers - Runs local development servers simulating production routing, static serving, and proxy rules.
- Dynamic Runtime Reloading - Hot-reloads and executes serverless functions dynamically across multiple programming language runtimes.
- Local Serverless Testing - Simulates serverless function execution locally with hot reloading and environment variable injection.
- Configuration Cascade Resolutions - Resolves configuration settings by merging values across files, environment variables, and remote layers.
- Continuous Deployment - Links local directories and sets up automated continuous deployment workflows for projects.
- Local Development Environments - Spins up a local server mirroring production routing, proxy rules, environment variables, and serverless functions for local testing.
- Serverless Function Development - Coordinates serverless function lifecycles and hot reloading across multiple language runtimes.
- Serverless Function Management - Coordinates the build, test, and lifecycle management of serverless functions.
- Static Site Deployment - Uploads web projects using file hashing, diffing, artifact caching, and real-time deployment tracking.
- Web Application Deployment - Orchestrates site deployment through file hashing, diffing, optimized uploads, build artifact caching, and progress tracking.
- Project Configuration - Resolves and normalizes configuration files with environment-specific overrides, build plugins, and variable injection.
- Production Emulation Proxies - Simulates production environments locally by combining static file serving, routing, and proxy rules.
- Environment Variable Managers - Loads and merges configuration values across files, process environments, remote settings, and build-time options with defined precedence.
- Serverless Function Mapping - Maps custom URL patterns to serverless functions for instant execution and routing.
- AI Application Generators - Creates brand-new web applications automatically by prompting an artificial intelligence assistant.
- User and Project Administration - Creates, deletes, lists, and administers user projects and accounts.
- Cloud Database Provisioning - Provisions production-ready relational databases and manages connection setups.
- Binary Object Storage Clients - Reads, writes, deletes, and lists binary objects stored within remote object stores from your terminal.
- Local-to-Remote Repository Publishing - Connects local development folders directly to remote projects on the hosting platform.
- Remote API Command Executions - Executes administrative platform operations directly from the terminal via automated API calls.
- Remote Repository Cloning - Downloads a remote source repository and links it to an existing project on the hosting platform.
- Agentic Task Automation - Manages automated assistant tasks to handle site operations directly from the terminal.
- Project Deletions - Creates, deletes, lists, and searches web projects and sites within an account.
- Build and Transfer Deployments - Monitors an active deployment in real time and waits until the build and publish process finishes.
- Production Builds - Builds projects for production output and serves them locally without file-watching capabilities.
- Production Build & Deployment - Builds your project for production and hosts the output locally without watching for source changes.
- Deployment Monitoring - Watches active remote deployments until they finish processing and publishing.
- Native Platform Method Invocations - Executes arbitrary service methods against the hosting platform directly from the command line.
- Local Build Orchestrators - Compiles your application source code on your local machine to prepare assets before publishing.
- Anonymous Accounts - Links an unassigned published site to your user account to take ownership of the project.
- Server Capability Extenders - Integrates third-party plugins that modify build configurations, add custom steps, and extend command-line functionality.
- Hook-Based Plugin Systems - Extends core functionality and build steps using modular hook-based plugin architectures.
- Project Log Streaming - Retrieves and streams live operational logs generated by deployed projects.
- Web Hosting - Automates web application deployment, environment variable merging, and resource provisioning.
