Dendron CLI

The Dendron CLI exposes Dendron's functionality via the command line.

Installation

npm install -g @dendronhq/dendron-cli

Engine Commands

doctor 🚧

Use doctor to perform specific fixes over your notes.

• NOTE: the functionality here is different from what is available in the plugin version of Doctor.

doctor helps you fix your notes

Options:
  --version     Show version number                                    [boolean]
  --help        Show help                                              [boolean]
  --wsRoot      location of workspace                                 [required]
  --enginePort  If set, connecto to running engine. If not set, create new
                instance of Dendron Engine
  --     what actions the doctor should take
                            [array] [choices: "h1ToTitle", "h1ToH2"]
  --query       run doctor over a query                                 [string]
  --limit       limit num changes                                       [number]
  --dryRun      dry run                                                [boolean]

available actions

• h1ToTitle: remove initial h1 header and use it to replace contents of title field in frontmatter
• h1ToH2: convert all initial h1 header to h2 header

examples

• convert all h1 tags to frontmatter title values for the readings hiearchy

dendron-cli doctor --wsRoot . --action h1ToTitle --limit 10 --query "readings.*" 

• see log

LOG_LEVEL=info LOG_DST=stdout dendron-cli doctor --wsRoot . --action h1ToTitle --limit 10 

launchEngineServer

Launch the dendron server. Useful for development purposes or to launch the server in a specified port

The CLI will also write out .dendron.* metadata files in the workspace root just the same as the Dendron plugin.

dendron-cli launchEngineServer --wsRoot ~/Dendron/ --vaults ~/Dendron/vault --port 3005

Publishing Commands

buildSite

Build dendron site.

dendron-cli buildSite

build notes for publication

Options:
  --version      Show version number                                   [boolean]
  --help         Show help                                             [boolean]
  --wsRoot       location of workspace                                [required]
  --vault        location of vault                                    [required]
  --writeStubs   writeStubs                                      [default: true]
  --incremental  use rsync to only copy files that changed
                                                      [boolean] [default: false]
  --dryRun       don't actually build                 [boolean] [default: false]

• eg

dendron-cli buildSite --wsRoot . --vault ./vault 

publishNotes

Publish a dendron site

dendron-cli publishNotes

Build, commit, and push your notes for publication

Options:
  --version         Show version number                                [boolean]
  --help            Show help                                          [boolean]
  --wsRoot          location of workspace                             [required]
  --vault           location of vault                                 [required]
  --writeStubs      writeStubs                                   [default: true]
  --incremental     use rsync to only copy files that changed
                                                      [boolean] [default: false]
  --dryRun          don't actually build              [boolean] [default: false]
  --noPush          don't push the result                              [boolean]
  --publishRepoDir  repo to publish from. default is same as `wsRoot`

• eg:

dendron-cli publishNotes  --wsRoot . --vault ./vault 

BuildSiteV2

dendron-cli buildSiteV2

build notes for publication using 11ty

Options:
  --version     Show version number                                    [boolean]
  --help        Show help                                              [boolean]
  --wsRoot      location of workspace                                 [required]
  --enginePort  If set, connecto to running engine. If not set, create new
                instance of Dendron Engine
  --serve       serve over local http server          [boolean] [default: false]
  --stage       serve over local http server
                                       [choices: "dev", "prod"] [default: "dev"]
  --servePort   port to serve over                             [default: "8080"]
  --output      if set, override output from config.yml                 [string]

Connect to Open Workspace

Normally, this command will spawn a new Dendron Engine that indexes your notes before building them for publication. You can skip this initial indexing if you have a current Dendron workspace running.

In that case, the CLI can connect to the current engine instead of starting a new one using the following command.

cd {root/of/workspace}
# .dendron.port has the port of the current running workspace
npx dendron-cli buildSiteV2 --wsRoot . --stage dev --serve --enginePort `cat .dendron.port`

Pod Commands

• NOTE: you can find pod ids in the pods page. Just add a .import|.export to the end of the id (eg. dendron.pod.json.import)

Export Pod

• export a pod

• eg: Export notes to JSONPod

dendron-cli exportPod --podId dendron.json --wsRoot . --vault "vault" 

Import Pod

• eg: Import notes from FilePod

dendron-cli importPod --podId dendron.markdown --vault "/Users/kevinlin/Dendron-es/vault" --podsDir /Users/kevinlin/Dendron-es/pods

Publish Pod

• eg: Publish a note as regular markdown

dendron-cli publishPod --wsRoot . --vault ./vault --podId dendron.markdown --noteByName dendron

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