Last Updated: 3/9/2026
Console commands
You can register custom console commands using
app.RootCmd.AddCommand(cmd), where cmd is a
cobra command.
Here is an example:
package main import ( "log" "github.com/pocketbase/pocketbase" "github.com/spf13/cobra" ) func main() { app := pocketbase.New() app.RootCmd.AddCommand(&cobra.Command{ Use: "hello", Run: func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) { log.Println("Hello world!") }, }) if err := app.Start(); err != nil { log.Fatal(err) } }
To run the command you can build your Go application and execute:
# or "go run main.go hello" ./myapp hello
Keep in mind that the console commands execute in their own separate app process and run
independently from the main serve command (aka. hook and realtime events between different
processes are not shared with one another).