# Publish

**Usage**: `client.platform.contracts.publish(contract, identity)`  
**Description**: This method will sign and broadcast any valid contract.

Parameters:

| Parameters   | Type     | Required | Description                                                                                              |
| ------------ | -------- | -------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **contract** | Contract | yes      | A valid [created contract](../contracts/create.md)                |
| **identity** | Identity | yes      | A valid [registered `application` identity](../identities/register.md) |

**Example**:

```js
const identityId = '';// Your identity identifier.
const identity = await client.platform.identities.get(identityId);
// See the contract.create documentation for more on how to create a dataContract
const contract = await client.platform.contracts.create(contractDefinitions, identity);
await client.platform.contracts.publish(contract, identity);
```

Returns : DataContractCreateTransition.