dev - Developer Essentials Installer

dev is a CLI tool designed to make it easy to set up a developer's machine with the tools necessary to build their next big project.

What's included

Currently, dev comes with setup for the following dev tools for the Linux environment,

Category - Compilers/Interpreters/Runtimes

• Dotnet Core
• Golang
• Oracle JDK
• JavaFX
• NodeJS
• Yarn
• Pip
• Virtualenv
• Rust

Category - DevOps

• Docker

Note - All the tools mentioned are for the Linux (x86/x64) platform, more specifically, Manjaro Linux. The installer was developed on Manjaro, so some installation uses Manjaro specific installation (for instance, installation with pacman package manager). This in theory should also allow the installer to run seamlessly in any Arch based distro as well, though the installer was not tested on other distros. So, if you use Arch or any other Arch based distro, you are welcome to test it. Please report any issues that you encounter. Support for other flavors of Linux coming soon.

Any ideas are welcome. That's what the discussions are for.

Usage

Ideally, you'll put dev in a directory and add that to your PATH, so that dev is available to you in the terminal from any location. This could be a custom ~/bin directory or any other directory of your liking.

To get the installer, build the project with cargo, preferably a release build, like this,

cargo build --release

You'll find the binary in the dev/target/release directory. Copy dev from there to whichever place you want to keep it.

Invoking dev from the terminal without any commands/flags or with the --help flag will produce the following output,

Usage: dev <COMMAND>

Commands:
  install  Install development tools. Use `dev install --help` for available options
  help     Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)

Options:
  -h, --help     Print help
  -V, --version  Print version

From there, you can type in dev install --help to check the tools available to you for installation. This is the output of running dev install --help in a terminal,

Install development tools. Use `dev install --help` for available options

Usage: dev install <TOOL>

Arguments:
  <TOOL>
          The tool to install

          Possible values:
          - pip:        Install pip
          - virtualenv: Install virtualenv
          - go:         Install Go
          - jdk:        Install JDK
          - openjfx:    Install OpenJFX
          - dotnet:     Install dotnet-sdk
          - nodejs:     Install NodeJS and npm
          - yarn:       Install yarn
          - rust:       Install Rust
          - docker:     Install Docker
          - all:        Install all tools

Options:
  -h, --help
          Print help (see a summary with '-h')

Breaking change

• Previously to install pip, you needed this dev install --pip
• Now, you can install pip with dev install pip
• You can still chain commands for installing tools like before with a slight change,
  • before: dev install --pip --go
  • now: dev install pip go

Please note that, if dev needs to download something (a tarball for instance), it will download that from the directory/location from which it was invoked. It will not automatically clean up the leftover archives after installation, this can be a feature that can be added in the future. This is why it is recommended that you put dev inside a directory of your choosing for now. That way the leftovers from the installation will be inside one directory, making clean up much easier and without leaving the filesystem messy. dev will also ask for the sudo users' password for most installations as they are often installed under the root(/) directory (/usr/local for golang for instance). This is done primarily due to recommendation (see: https://go.dev/doc/install) and ease of use. Although this too can be an option during the installation, and may be added in the future as a feature.