Plasmic CLI Usage

The Plasmic CLI makes it easy to invoke code generation of Plasmic components as you develop your application.

Please consult plasmic -h for the up-to-date reference!

Here are all the commands and high-level descriptions of what they do.

plasmic auth

Just login to Plasmic. Generate a ~/.plasmic.auth that is connected to a personal API token for your user.

plasmic init

This command will generate a plasmic.json file and .plasmic.auth (if one doesn’t already exist).

plasmic sync

This command will sync designs to local files—this is what powers codegen.

A quick note about generated files

Files in the presentational component library (e.g. PlasmicButton.tsx in plasmic/) should not be edited, as those changes will be lost next time you run plasmic sync. Your changes in developer-owned wrapper components (e.g. Button.tsx in src/) will be unaffected. For these files, we only update imports to reflect any new Plasmic-managed files.

Syncing new projects

For new projects, you will need to manually specify them on the first sync. Your plasmic.json file will be automatically updated to include them.

$ plasmic sync --projects PROJECT_ID

plasmic watch

plasmic watch will listen for new changes from the Studio and automatically sync when any change is detected.

Note: This will only work for projects where version="latest" in plasmic.json.

plasmic fix-imports

When using codegen, you can freely move files around the filesystem (e.g. using git mv). Use this command to fix import paths and your plasmic.json file.

Note: this is run automatically as part of plasmic sync.

plasmic info

Query for information about a project, optionally in JSON format. Useful for automation to dump out latest version, version history, etc.

See an example of how to use this in CI/CD scripts.

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