CLI Installation

Install the CLI on the machine where you keep your application source. The npm package is slipway-cli; the executable is slipway.

npm install -g slipway-cli
slipway --version
slipway --help

Requirements

Use Node.js 22 or newer. Source packaging uses Git when the directory is a repository, or tar otherwise. You do not need a local Docker daemon to upload source; the Slipway server builds and runs the image.

For a one-off invocation:

npx slipway-cli --help

Choose a compatible version

The CLI, Slipway server, and application hooks have separate versions. A CLI version number is not the server release number. Check release compatibility before using commands from an unreleased build.

The live application logs and remote command examples in this guide require the unreleased next CLI and server. Installing the current npm package does not establish that those capabilities are available.

Update

npm install -g slipway-cli@latest

Verify the installed version and help again, then authenticate and follow the CLI workflow.