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Start Emulator with the Flow CLI

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.


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flow emulator

⚠️ The emulator command expects configuration to be initialized. See flow init command.

Example Usage​


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> flow emulator
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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.

Version Check​

  • Flag: --skip-version-check
  • Default: false

Skip version check during start up to speed up process for slow connections.