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Setup the CLI

Login#

For local development use snaplet login to associate your machine to your Snaplet account. You only need to do this once per machine, the access-token is stored in ~/.snaplet/config.json. You can also set the SNAPLET_ACCESS_TOKEN env-var.

$ snaplet loginGet your personal access token from this page: https://app.snaplet.dev/access-token/cli✔ Paste your access token … xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxVerifying credentials...✔ Logged in as peter@snaplet.dev

Select a datasource#

The CLI is installed and logged in, there's one final step before you can restore a snapshot, which is to associate your code's repository to the datasource you created in the first step.

Access to snapshots are scoped to a specific directory on your filesystem as this allows you to restore from multiple datasources on a single machine.

The snaplet setup command can be run for each repo, this is usually run at the repository root directory level, where a configuration file (<projectRepo>/.snaplet/config.json) is generated.

# Change to your project's directorycd ./your/code
$ snaplet setup✔ Restore snapshots from... › SnapletTesting connection credentials... ✔ SuccessConnection credentials:user       postgreshost       localhostport       5432userpassword   database   snaplet_developmentWrote project config

Environmental variables#

You can overwrite the configuration:

  • SNAPLET_ACCESS_TOKEN=xxx-xxx-xxx: Overwrite the access token, logging in with a different user.
  • SNAPLET_DATABASE_ID=xxx-xxx-xxx: Overwrite the current datasource.
  • SNAPLET_DATABASE_CONNECTION_STRING=pg://user:pasword@localhost:5432/database: Database connection credentials.