Start Emulator with the Flow CLI
How to start Flow emulator from the command line
The Flow CLI provides a command to start an emulator. The Flow Emulator is a lightweight tool that emulates the behaviour of the real Flow network.
flow emulator
⚠️ The emulator command expects configuration to be initialized. See flow init command.
Example Usage
> flow emulator
INFO[0000] ⚙️ Using service account 0xf8d6e0586b0a20c7 serviceAddress=f8d6e0586b0a20c7 ...
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To learn more about using the Emulator, have a look at the README of the repository.
Flags
Emulator Flags
You can specify any emulator flags found here and they will be applied to the emulator service.
Configuration
- Flag:
--config-path - Short Flag:
-f - Valid inputs: valid filename
Specify a filename for the configuration files, you can provide multiple configuration
files by using -f flag multiple times.
Initialize
- Flag:
--init
⚠️ Deprecated: use flow init instead.
Initialize configuration during the command execution.