@thirdweb-dev/cli

Thirdweb CLI

Publish and deploy smart contracts without dealing with private keys

Getting started

The thirdweb CLI is your one-stop-shop for publishing custom contracts for your team or the world to use. The CLI uploads all necessary data to decentralized storage and makes it available to deploy via the thirdweb sdk or thirdweb dashboard.

This brings all the capabilities of thirdweb to your own custom contracts.

1. Extending ThirdwebContract

In order to publish a contract and get all the benefits of the thirdweb platform, your contract needs to extend ThirdwebContract.

From your project, add the thirdweb contracts dependency:

npm i @thirdweb-dev/contracts

Once installed, in your Solidity contract you want to publish, import and extend ThirdwebContract. Here's an example:

// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
pragma solidity ^0.8.4;

import "@thirdweb-dev/contracts/ThirdwebContract.sol";

contract HellowWorldContract is ThirdwebContract {
    // your contract code
}

2. Deploying your contract

Once your contract code is setup like above, you can now publish it by running:

npx thirdweb deploy

Alternatively, you install the CLI as a global command on your machine:

npm i -g @thirdweb-dev/cli
thirdweb deploy

This command will:

• auto-detect any contract that extends ThirdwebContract in your project
• compile your project
• Upload ABIs to IPFS
• Open the deploy flow in your thirdweb dashboard in a browser

From the thirdweb dashboard, you can review and deploy your contracts.

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Commands

• thirdweb deploy - Compile & deploy contracts through your dashboard
• thirdweb publish - Compile & publish contracts, makes them available for easy deployment later directly from your dashboard.

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Supported projects

To publish, you need to be in a directory that contains a project which the CLI is compatible with. The projects we support so far:

• hardhat
• forge
• truffle
• brownie
• solc

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Running the examples

Clone the repo and run this command after installing the CLI tool:

$ cd examples/hardhat
$ thirdweb publish

Local Development

The simplest way to work on the CLI locally is to:

1. Install the package locally
2. Run the build:watch command to compile any changes in realtime

$ npm install -g ./
$ yarn run build:watch