Installation

Dhal is published as the scoped npm package @rokadhq/dhal.

npm install @rokadhq/dhal

Requirements

Dhal requires Node.js >=18.18.0.

Dhal uses optional peer dependencies so each app installs only what it needs.

npm install express @rokadhq/dhal

import { dhal } from "@rokadhq/dhal/express";

npm install fastify @rokadhq/dhal

import { dhalFastify } from "@rokadhq/dhal/fastify";

npm install ioredis @rokadhq/dhal

import { RedisRateLimitStore } from "@rokadhq/dhal/stores/redis";
import { RedisSignalStore } from "@rokadhq/dhal/stores/redis-signal";

npm install @opentelemetry/api @rokadhq/dhal

import { createOtelTelemetry } from "@rokadhq/dhal/telemetry/otel";

npm install ai @ai-sdk/openai @rokadhq/dhal

npx dhal autosetup . --provider openai --model gpt-4.1-mini --json

After installing in a project:

npx dhal init

Without installing first:

npm exec --package @rokadhq/dhal dhal -- init

npx dhal --help
npx dhal doctor