Install

The Element Command Line Interface (CLI) is a powerful tool that makes it fast and easy to get started with browser level performance testing with Flood Element. It helps you scaffold a new project, then generate, write, validate, and run your scripts on your local machine. When you're ready, you can upload your test scripts to Flood and be confident they’ll run exactly as expected, just like they did on your local machine.

Choosing Yarn or NPM

We use the Yarn package manager throughout these docs, however, each command is has a compatible NPM equivelant.

• Windows
• macOS
• Linux

If you are on macOS and don't already have NodeJS installed, consider installing Element using homebrew. This will install Element along with anything else it needs to run, such as NodeJS. Install using Homebrew:

brew

brew install floodio/taps/element

Or if you prefer using Yarn or NPM:

yarn

yarn global add element-cli

NPM

npm -g install element-cli

Local versioning

Element is smart enough to detect whether you're using a custom version of Element locally or using the global install.

If you add element-cli to your local project package.json, Element will use that version, otherwise, it will default to your global version.

Getting help

The Element CLI comes with built in help that details the commands and options available. Run:

element help

to see a list of commands and global the Element CLI supports. To get more detailed information about a specific command, and the options it accepts, pass it the --help flag.

For example, to learn more about the run command and the options you can pass in, run:

element run --help

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In the next section, we'll talk about how to create your first Element project.