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url: https://developer.youcan.shop/themes/cli/commands.md
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# Commands

### YouCan CLI offer many commands to build your themes

| Command      | Description                                                 |
| ------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------- |
| auth login        | Authorize a YouCan Store                                    |
| auth logout       | Logout from a YouCan store                                  |
| theme init   | starts a dev server and watches over the current directory  |
| theme list   | List of development themes                                  |
| theme dev    | Start a local server for developing your theme              |
| theme delete | Delete an existing theme                                    |
| theme pack   | Package a theme                                             |

## Login

Authorize YouCan CLI with your YouCan Partner account, in case of multi-store, a list of development stores will be displayed and must choose one to continue.

```bash
youcan auth login
```

## Logout

Remove YouCan CLI’s authorization to access your account. This command will invalidate your current token.

```bash
youcan auth logout
```

## Theme Init

Clones the default starter theme into a new directory, and creates a development theme from it. You are prompted for the theme's name, author, version, and support and documentation URLs. The CLI writes them to the theme's [`theme_info`](/themes/config/settings_schema#theme-info) in `config/settings_schema.json` before uploading.

```bash
youcan theme init
```

**Flags**

| Flag        | Alias | Description |
| ----------- | ----- | ----------- |
| `--url`     | `-u`  | The Git URL of the starter theme to clone. Defaults to `https://github.com/youcan-shop/origins`. |
| `--inplace` | `-i`  | Create the development theme from the current directory instead of cloning. |

## Theme List

It lists all of your development themes

```bash
youcan theme list
```

## Theme Dev

Set up a local server to work on your YouCan theme. It launches a Chromium browser with a preview of your theme and listens for changes in the theme code, then automatically uploads the changes and reloads the preview to display the most recent theme update.

```bash
youcan theme dev
```

**Flags**

| Flag     | Alias    | Description                |
| -------- | -------- | -------------------------- |
| —preview | -preview | Starts the preview browser |

## Theme Delete

It lists all of your development themes and prompts you to select one to delete.

```bash
youcan theme delete
```

## Theme Pack

It Package a theme

```bash
youcan theme pack
```