charbonnierg · November 1, 2025 15:17 · Dec 22, 2023 · Dec 22, 2023 · Dec 22, 2023 · Dec 22, 2023
diff --git a/nats-cli-cheatsheet.md b/nats-cli-cheatsheet.md
@@ -126,9 +126,3 @@ nats reply service.requests "Message {{Count}} @ {{Time}}"
 ```bash
 nats reply service.requests --echo --sleep 10
 ```
-
-- To request a response from a server and show just the raw result:
-
-```bash
-nats request destination.subject "hello world" -H "Content-type:text/plain" --raw
-```
diff --git a/nats-cli-cheatsheet.md b/nats-cli-cheatsheet.md
@@ -6,6 +6,13 @@ Cheat sheets are available from the CLI directly:
 nats cheat
 ```
 
+Try out the following commands:
+
+```bash
+nats cheat contexts
+nats cheat pub
+```
+
 ## Contexts
 
 - Create a non-default context:

diff --git a/nats-cli-cheatsheet.md b/nats-cli-cheatsheet.md
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 # NATS Cheatsheet
 
+Cheat sheets are available from the CLI directly:
+
+```bash
+nats cheat
+```
+
 ## Contexts
 
 - Create a non-default context:

diff --git a/nats-cli-cheatsheet.md b/nats-cli-cheatsheet.md
@@ -0,0 +1,121 @@
+# NATS Cheatsheet
+
+## Contexts
+
+- Create a non-default context:
+
+```bash
+nats context add development --server nats.dev.example.net:4222
+```
+
+- Create a new default context:
+
+```bash
+nats context add development --server nats.dev.example.net:4222 --select
+```
+
+- Update (you can choose the editor of your choice)
+
+```bash
+EDITOR=vim nats context edit development
+```
+
+- List contexts
+
+```
+nats context ls
+```
+
+- View context
+
+```bash
+nats context info development
+```
+
+- View context in JSON format:
+
+```bash
+nats context info development --json
+```
+
+- Validate all connections are valid and that connections can be established:
+
+```bash
+nats context validate --connect
+```
+
+- Select a new default context:
+
+```bash
+nats context select development
+```
+
+## Publish
+
+- Publish using the default context:
+
+```bash
+nats pub subject body
+```
+
+> Where `subject` is the message subject, and `body`` is the message body
+
+- Publish using a different context than the default context:
+
+```bash
+nats pub --context development subject body
+```
+
+- To publish 100 messages with a random body between 100 and 1000 characters:
+
+```bash
+nats pub destination.subject "{{ Random 100 1000 }}" -H Count:{{ Count }} --count 100
+```
+
+- To publish messages from STDIN:
+
+```bash
+echo "hello world" | nats pub destination.subject
+```
+
+## Requests
+
+- To send a request and wait for response:
+
+```bash
+nats req subject request
+```
+
+> Where `subject` is the subject where request will be sent, and `request` is the request payload.
+
+- To request a response from a server and show just the raw result:
+
+```bash
+nats request destination.subject "hello world" -H "Content-type:text/plain" --raw
+```
+
+## Replies
+
+- To set up a responder that runs an external command with the 3rd subject token as argument:
+
+```bash
+nats reply "service.requests.>" --command "service.sh {{2}}"
+```
+
+- To set up basic responder:
+
+```bash
+nats reply service.requests "Message {{Count}} @ {{Time}}"
+```
+
+- To setup an echo responder:
+
+```bash
+nats reply service.requests --echo --sleep 10
+```
+
+- To request a response from a server and show just the raw result:
+
+```bash
+nats request destination.subject "hello world" -H "Content-type:text/plain" --raw
+```
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