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🔧 Installation & Setup How do I install NanoAPI? NOTE: As of v1.0.9 we no longer require or support installs via npm. Instead use the comma

🔧 Installation &amp; Setup How do I install NanoAPI? NOTE: As of v1.0.9 we no longer require or support installs via npm. Instead use the command below. Check the Getting Started guide. The short version: curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nanoapi-io/napi/refs/heads/main/install_scripts/install.sh | bash Or, via Powershell irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nanoapi-io/napi/refs/heads/main/install_scripts/install.ps1 | iex Make sure to run the above in an admin session. (Right click &gt; Run as administrator on Powershell). What are the system requirements for running NanoAPI? None. napi is a binary that runs without any external dependencies. How do I update NanoAPI to the latest version? The same script that installs the tool will also handle updating to the latest version, including removing the old binaries. curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nanoapi-io/napi/refs/heads/main/install_scripts/install.sh | bash 🚀 Usage Basics How do I open the UI after starting the CLI? After running the napi manifest generate command, the CLI will output a link to the manifest for viewing. The manifests can also be viewed by manually going to https://app.nanoapi.io Can I use NanoAPI in CI environments or headless mode? You can! napi login --api-token=*** is built for just such a use case. Check the CLI reference for more info. 🧑‍💻 Language Support How can I request or contribute support for another language? You can start by opening an issue on GitHub or sending us a message on Discord . How does NanoAPI handle mixed-language monorepos? For now, mixed-language monorepos require each service to have it’s own .napirc . This is something that we may introduce better support for in the future, but we want to hear from you if you have this issue before we start work on it. 🖥️ Frontend &amp; UI Does the UI require internet access or can it run offline? The UI can only be accessed at https://app.nanoapi.io 🧠 Symbol Extractor Does napi edit my code? No, the CLI tool does not edit your code. Our tool builds a tree structure from your code and then edits the branches in-place. No code is added or removed, only moved around. If you have the time, we encourage you to deep dive into our source code to see how we do it. What does the symbol extractor do? This guide explains it best. Put simply: NanoAPI’s symbol extraction is a powerful way of pulling functionality out of existing codebases for the purposes of creating smaller codebases, microservices, or serverless functions. Can I export the results of the symbol extraction? You can! There are two ways of doing this: 1. Take the exported functionality from napi_out After the symbol extraction runs, you will have a fully-formed codebase within napi_out folder (or wherever you configured the output to go in .napirc . This can be taken and run directly. We always encourage you to double-check your codebase before running it in production. 2. Export selected extractions to JSON files When using the UI or CLI to do extraction, you can specify to output the result of the extraction as a JSON file. These JSON files can then later be passed to the CLI to perform the split along the same lines. Great for running in a CI pipeline! ⚙️ Advanced Features Can I use NanoAPI across multiple codebases or repositories? Not yet. We are working on this however and will include this functionality in the release of our cloud hosted version. Please join the waitlist to be notified .

🔧 Installation &amp; Setup How do I install NanoAPI? NOTE: As of v1.0.9 we no longer require or support installs via npm. Instead use the comma