Publishing from the CLI
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In addition to publishing packages through Framer, you can also publish from the command line through the Framer Command Line Interface (CLI)
Use npx to run the package: ~ $ npx framer-cli help
Note: You may be asked to set a FRAMER_TOKEN, find out more about this in this article.
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
| authenticate | Provides a special FRAMER_TOKEN to be used as an environment variable for publishing packages under the authenticated user's account. |
| build | Ensures that the project is in a valid state for publishing. |
| publish | Responsible for building the project, managing project versioning, and publishing the project publically or to your team. This command requires a FRAMER_TOKEN environment variable for publishing. This token is unique to a given individual and is used for both authentication and determining the user’s available private packages space, if any. |
| help | Prints the usage instructions and provides additional information about different options available for each function. Running a given command with the --help flag will also show information for that given command. |