What is NEAR CLI?

CLI stands for Command Line Interface tool to interact with accounts and smart contracts on NEAR.

near-cli is a NodeJS command line interface that utilizes near-api-js to connect to and interact with the NEAR blockchain.

Most commonly used commands:

• near login: store full access key locally
• near state: show general details of an account
• near send: sends tokens from one account to another
• near deploy: deploy a contract to the blockchain
• near dev-deploy: create a dev account & deploy a contract (TestNet)
• near call: make a contract call (change or view methods)
• near view: make a contract call (only view methods)
• near repl: launch an interactive connection to the blockchain

You can install near-cli globally with npm install -g near-cli. Make sure you have a current version of npm and NodeJS version 12 or above installed. For Windows users, we recommend using Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).