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Supercharge Your Workflow with Google Gemini CLI

May 10, 2025

Supercharge Your Workflow with Google Gemini CLI

Unlock AI-powered CLI in seconds with the new Google Gemini CLI.


🚀 Introduction

Gemini CLI lets you bootstrap projects, generate code, and integrate AI assistants directly from your terminal.


💻 Installation

Ensure you have Node.js ≥ 18 installed, then:

# Run without installing
npx https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli

# Or install globally
npm install -g @google/gemini-cli

🔐 Authentication

Choose one of three methods:

❍ Login with Google
● Gemini API Key (AI Studio)
❍ Vertex AI
Authentication prompt for Gemini CLI
Choose your authentication method.

Add your GEMINI_API_KEY to your .env (no reload needed), or follow the on-screen guide to log in.


✨ Quick Example

Create a Python FastAPI calculator project:

CLI prompt asking for a project description
Prompting Gemini CLI to create a FastAPI calculator.

After confirming, Gemini CLI creates your files:

A tree view of the files created by the CLI
File structure generated by the CLI.

It then starts the server at http://localhost:8000/:

Browser output from the generated FastAPI application
The running FastAPI application in the browser.

🎯 Conclusion

Scaffold full-stack apps with a single command. Try Gemini CLI today and accelerate your development!


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