laikacli

The Laika CMS command-line interface. One npm name, two bins for the same entry point:

• laikacli — canonical; matches the package name, so npx laikacli / pnpm dlx laikacli just work.
• laika — short alias once the package is installed.

Why not publish as laika? That npm name is taken by an unrelated (abandoned) package. Bin names, however, are per-package — so the short command is still ours.

Install

pnpm add -D laikacli   # or npm i -D / yarn add -D

Then:

laika local serve                 # start the local-file JSON:API storage server
laika local generate              # config.yaml -> typed config.gen.ts (add --watch to keep it fresh)
laika local migrate -s ./a -d ./b # copy a storage repository to another backend
laika local list-backends         # show every registered storage backend

Or one-off without installing:

npx laikacli local serve
pnpm dlx laikacli local serve

Commands

All local-file dev tooling lives under the local namespace; the top level is reserved for future non-local commands.

| Command | What it does | | --------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | local serve | Local-file JSON:API storage server for dev workflows (--root, --port, --host, --auth-token) | | local generate | Generate a typed TypeScript module from a Decap CMS config.yaml | | local migrate | Copy every atom from one storage repository to another (fs, vercel, surrealdb, …) | | local list-backends | List every registered storage backend and its pinned package version |

Run laika local <command> --help for the full flag reference.

Relationship to @laikacms/local

The commands are implemented in @laikacms/local and composed here. @laikacms/local remains the programmatic API (layerStorageServer, generateConfig, runMigrate, …) and still ships its own laika-local bin for backwards compatibility; this package is just the friendlier front door.