Get started with Tinybird Forward

Follow these steps to install Tinybird on your machine and deploy your first data project in five minutes.

See Core concepts for a complete overview of Tinybird Forward.

Before you begin

To get started, you need the following:

  • A container runtime, like Docker or Orbstack
  • Linux or macOS

Deploy a new project in five minutes

1

Create a Tinybird Forward account

If you don't already have a Tinybird Forward account, you can create one at cloud.tinybird.co -- it's free!

2

Install and authenticate

Run the following command to install the Tinybird Forward CLI:

curl https://tinybird.co | sh

Then, authenticate with your Tinybird account using tb login:

# Opens a browser window so that you can authenticate
tb login

In the browser, create a new workspace or select an existing one.

3

Run Tinybird Local

After you've authenticated, run tb local start to start a local Tinybird instance in a Docker container, allowing you to develop and test your project locally.

# Starts the container
tb local start
4

Create a project

Pass an LLM prompt using the --prompt flag to generate a customized starter project. For example:

tb create --prompt "I am developing the insights page for my app. I am tracking their usage and \
want to show them a line chart and a widget with the total amount of actions they did with time \
range filters. It is a multitenant app, so organization id is a required param for all endpoints"

The previous prompt creates a project in the current directory.

5

Run the development server

To start developing, run the dev command and start editing the data files within the created project directory. This command starts the development server and also provides a console to interact with the database. The project will automatically rebuild and reload upon saving changes to any file.

tb dev
6

Deploy to Tinybird Cloud

To deploy to Tinybird Cloud, create a deployment using the --cloud flag. This prepares all the resources in the cloud environment.

# Prepares all resources in Tinybird Cloud
tb --cloud deploy
7

Open the project in Tinybird Cloud

To open the project in Tinybird Cloud, run the following command:

# Opens the deployed project in Tinybird Cloud
tb --cloud open

Go to Endpoints and select an endpoint to see stats and snippets.

Next steps

  • Familiarize yourself with Tinybird concepts. See Core concepts.
  • Learn about datafiles, like .datasource and .pipe files. See Datafiles.
  • Get data into Tinybird from a variety of sources. See Get data in.
  • Browse the Tinybird CLI commands reference. See Commands reference.
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