Statamic CLI Tool
Installing the CLI tool
composer global require statamic/cli
Make sure to place Composer's system-wide vendor bin directory in your $PATH so the statamic executable can be located by your system. Here's how.
Once installed, you should be able to run statamic {command name} from within any directory.
GitHub authentication
When you install starter kits, the CLI might present you with a warning that the GitHub API limit is reached. Generate a Personal acces token and paste it in your terminal with this command so Composer will save it for future use:
composer config --global --auth github-oauth.github.com [your_token_here]Read more on this in the Composer Docs.
Updating the CLI tool
composer global update statamic/cli
Run this command to update the CLI tool to the most recent published version.
Using the CLI tool
Installing Statamic
You may create a new Statamic site with the new command:
statamic new my-site
This will present you with a list of supported starter kits to select from. Upon selection, the latest version will be downloaded and installed into the my-site directory.
You may also pass an explicit starter kit repo if you wish to skip the selection prompt:
statamic new my-site statamic/starter-kit-cool-writings
Checking Statamic versions
From within an existing Statamic project root directory, you may run the following command to quickly find out which version is being used.
statamic version
Updating Statamic
From within an existing Statamic project root directory, you may use the following command to update to the latest version.
statamic update
This is just syntactic sugar for the composer update statamic/cms --with-dependencies command.