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title: CLI
description: API Reference for the Next.js Command Line Interface (CLI) tools.
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Next.js comes with **two** Command Line Interface (CLI) tools:

- **`create-next-app`**: Quickly create a new Next.js application using the default template or an [example](https://github.com/vercel/next.js/tree/canary/examples) from a public GitHub repository.
- **`next`**: Run the Next.js development server, build your application, and more.