Examples

Common workflows with jinks-cli. See the command reference for every option.

Create a new application interactively

jinks create

Create a new application with a specific abbreviation

jinks create my-tei-app

Update an application, checking every file

jinks update my-tei-app --all

Update and sync changed files to the local directory

jinks update my-tei-app --sync

Overwrite the app's config.json while updating

jinks update my-tei-app --config ./config.json
# or pipe the configuration in via stdin
cat config.json | jinks update my-tei-app --config

Edit an existing application

# with interactive selection
jinks edit

# a specific application
jinks edit my-tei-app

Run an action

# with interactive action selection
jinks run my-tei-app

# a specific action
jinks run my-tei-app reindex

Watch a directory and sync changes to the database

# the current directory
jinks watch

# a specific application directory
jinks watch ./my-tei-app

Work with profiles

# create a new feature profile
jinks create-profile my-feature --out ./my-feature

# edit an existing profile
jinks edit-profile ./my-feature

Connect to a different server

jinks list --server http://my-server:8080/exist/apps/jinks