Environments and migrations > Installing the CLI

Installing the CLI

Using npm:

npm install -g datocms-client

Using yarn:

yarn global add datocms-client

Set up the API token

Before working with migrations, you’ll need to set up the API token that will be used to perform them.

You can either pass it on the command line:

$ dato migrate --token=XYZ [...]

or as a DATO_MANAGEMENT_API_TOKEN environment variable:

$ export DATO_MANAGEMENT_API_TOKEN=XYZ
$ dato migrate [...]

The CLI also loads environment variables from a .env file, so you can place the token there (just make sure not to publish your .env file publicly):

$ echo '.env' >> .gitignore
$ echo 'DATO_MANAGEMENT_API_TOKEN=XYZ' >> .env