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The Twilio CLI allows you to manage your Twilio resources from your terminal or command prompt. Let’s get it installed and take a quick tour. Follow the installation instructions for your specific platform below.

Install Twilio CLI

One of the easiest ways to install the CLI on Mac OS X is to use Homebrew. If you don't already have it installed, visit the Homebrew site for installation instructions and then return here.

Once Homebrew is installed, simply run the following command to install the CLI:

Updating

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If you already installed the CLI with brew and want to upgrade to the latest version, run:

Warning for Node.js developers

If you have installed Node.js version 10.12 or higher on your Mac, you can avoid potential Node.js version conflicts by installing the CLI using npm:

Before we can install, we need to make sure you have Node.js installed (version 10.12 or above). To see if you have node installed, try running this command:

If your system reports v10.12.0 or above, you can skip the next step.

Installing Node.js on Windows

Using the Windows Installer (.msi) is the recommended way to install Node.js on Windows. You can download the installer from the Node.js download page.

Installing Twilio CLI

The CLI is installed with npm (Node Package Manager), which comes with Node.js. To install the CLI run the following command:

Note the -g option is what installs the command globally so you can run it from anywhere in your system.

Updating

If you already installed the CLI with npm and want to upgrade to the latest version, run:

Before we can install, we need to make sure you have Node.js installed (version 10.12 or above). Even if you already installed Node yourself, the CLI works best when you install it using nvm. Here's how to get nvm installed on most Linux systems:

Please visit the nvm installation instructions for additional options and troubleshooting steps. Once you have nvm installed, run the following to install and use the most recent LTS release of Node.js:

Installing other Twilio CLI prerequisites for Linux

Depending on your distribution, you will need to run one of the following commands:

  • Debian/Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install libsecret-1-dev
  • Red Hat-based: sudo yum install libsecret-devel
  • Arch Linux: sudo pacman -S libsecret

Installing Twilio CLI

The CLI is installed with npm (Node Package Manager), which comes with Node.js. To install the CLI run the following command:

Note the -g option is what installs the command globally so you can run it from anywhere in your system.

Updating

If you already installed the CLI with npm and want to upgrade to the latest version, run:

Login to your Twilio account

In order to access your Twilio account, you need to provide your Twilio credentials to the CLI. This can be done by running this command:

You will be prompted for your Account SID and Auth Token, both of which you can find on the dashboard of your Twilio console. This will create an API Key for you that will be stored securely for future use. Visit general usage to learn more about using multiple profiles.

Install CLI autocomplete (bash or zsh only)

If you are running bash or zsh on Mac OS X or Linux, you can run one of the two commands below (as appropriate for the shell you are using):

or

Follow the instructions provided to install command auto-complete for the CLI into your shell.

Make sure you restart or open a new shell after you complete the step to install autocomplete.

Exploring Twilio CLI

The best way to learn about what you can do with the CLI is to simply run the command:

When you do, you will get a list of the various topics and commands you can run. Topics are just groupings for more topics and commands, just like the folder structure on your file system.

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See something that looks interesting? Just try running it:

Since “api” is a topic, you will actually be shown more topics and commands that are contained within that topic. Let’s say in the process of exploring, you stumbled upon this command:

If you run that command, it will list all of your SMS messages, which may be a lot. How can you filter them? Or, more generally, how can you discover what options a given CLI command provides? The answer is to add “--help” to the command like so:

If you type a command, you might get an error if you haven’t provided all of the required options. This is another situation where adding “--help” to the command can give you more information.

Examples

List your phone numbers

Send a text message

More examples

Please visit our Examples page for a gallery of more examples.

What’s next?

Now that you’ve been introduced to the CLI, where should you go from here?

Explore plugins

The Twilio CLI can be extended via plugins. You can publish your own for the community or make them private for your own (or your clients') business workflows. There's already a number of plugins available for you to extend your CLI.

General usage guide

Refer to our general usage guide to read more about a variety of CLI features:

More examples

We have a whole page full of examples of the various things you can do with the Twilio CLI.

Send us feedback

Finally, we’d love to hear from you. Any time you have feedback you’d like to send us, just run:

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Since the release of .NET Core 1.0 in 2014, .NET developers have no longer been confined to development on Windows. Yet I am still surprised by how many people don't realise that .NET Core is cross-platform!

I develop all my .NET code, from web apps to Azure Functions, on macOS and with SQL server being a large part of developing with .NET, I wanted to share how I use it on macOS.

We will use a Docker container to host SQL server, which means this technique could also be used on Windows and Linux and not just macOS.

If you would like to see a full integration of Twilio APIs in a .NET Core application then checkout this free 5-part video series I created. It's separate from this blog post tutorial but will give you a full run down of many APIs at once.

Getting Started with Docker

To get started we will need to download Docker for Mac and follow the installation instructions.

Once installed, the first thing we will need to do is increase Docker's default memory allocation as SQL Server will require a bit more grunt.

Click on the Docker daemon icon in the top menu and select 'Preferences'.

Next, choose the 'Resources' tab, note - on some versions of Docker you may find it under the 'Advanced' tab, and adjust the memory slider to be at least 4GB. Then click 'Apply and Restart'

Downloading and running SQL Server

We can download and run the SQL Server image all at once by running the following command in the terminal.

There are several parameters in the above command, so let's take a closer look at each one.

  • -d will launch the container in 'detached' mode and is optional. This means that containers will run in the background and you can close the terminal window.
  • --name sql_server will assign a name to the container and is optional, but recommended for easier management!
  • -e will allow you to set environment variables:
    • 'ACCEPT_EULA=Y' SQL Server requires the user to accept the 'End User Licence Agreement' or EULA. The Y here indicates acceptance.
    • 'SA_PASSWORD=someThingComplicated1234' is a required parameter for SQL Server. This is the System Administrator password. See the note below on password strength.
  • -p 1433:1433 will map the local port 1433 to port 1433 on the container. Port 1433 is the default TCP port that SQL Server will listen on.
  • mcr.microsoft.com/mssql/server:2019-latest is the image we wish to run. I have used the latest version of 2019, however, if you need a different version you can check out the Microsoft SQL Server page on Docker Hub.

For more information on docker runcommands, check out the documentation.

Note on Password Strength

If you find your image starts but then immediately stops or you get an error such as setup failed with error code 1`, then it may be you haven't created a strong enough password. SQL Server really means it when it requests a strong password. Ensure good length with a mixture of upper and lower case, and a mix of alphanumeric characters. For more information on password requirements take a look at the Microsoft documentation.

Using the SQL CLI tool

The SQL CLI tool is a convenient command-line tool for querying SQL databases and is cross-platform. It's also really useful for checking to see if the above worked!

To install it, run the following command in the terminal:

Where someThingComplicated1234 is your password.

You should receive a response similar to below:

Azure Data Studio

Another hurdle with using SQL Server on macOS is the lack of SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), a software tool that is used for configuring, managing, and administering all components within Microsoft SQL Server. It includes scripting tools for creating and running queries and graphical tools for use with objects and features within SQL Server.

However, Azure Data Studio has got you covered.

Click the 'New connection' link and enter localhost for the 'Server' input, sa for the 'User name' input, and then your password for the 'Password' input.

The other inputs are optional.

Once you've logged in you should have a view similar to the one below, with all the databases on the server listed.

The connection string

To use the database within code, the connection string will look like this, with the database name substituted for DB_NAME.

Some useful Docker commands

Some useful Docker commands can be found below

  • View downloaded images: docker images
  • View all containers: docker container ls -a
  • View all running containers: docker container ls -a
  • Start a container: docker start CONTAINER_NAME
  • Stop a container: docker stop CONTAINER_NAME
  • Remove a container: docker rm CONTAINER_ID

Cross platform-ness

Although I have targeted everything in this blog towards macOS, there is no reason why you couldn't run your SQL Server instance within Docker on Windows or Linux.

If you have any tips and tricks for cross-platform development with .NET Core, then I would love to hear from you!

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