Chef

Personal package manager

Why it exists

This is useful for those binaries that are not packaged by a distro.

With chef you can:

Install a random binary
Keep it up-to-date
Run it

Usage

Create a file for example chef.ts with:

import { Chef } from "jsr:@sigmasd/chef";

const chef = new Chef();

chef.add({
  name: "binary1",
  download: () => {
    // a fuction that downloads the binary and return its relative path
  },
  version: () => {
    // a function that returns the latest version of the binary
  },
});

await chef.run();

For a better experience install it with deno install (make sure ~/.deno/bin is in your path):

deno install -A -n chef chef.ts

You can now use:

chef update to update all binaries (or install it if it doesn’t exist yet)
chef list to list currently binaries
chef run ${binary} $args to run one of the installed binaries

Checkout bin direcotry for more examples.

Examples

Example 1

import { $ } from "jsr:@david/dax@0.39.2";
import { Chef } from "jsr:@sigmasd/chef";
import { getLatestGithubRelease, getLatestNpmVersion } from "jsr:@sigmasd/chef/utils";

if (import.meta.main) {
 const chef = new Chef();
 chef.addMany(
   [
     {
       name: "slint-lsp",
       download: async () => {
         await $.request(
           "https://github.com/slint-ui/slint/releases/download/v1.5.1/slint-lsp-linux.tar.gz",
         ).pipeToPath();
         await $`tar -xzf slint-lsp-linux.tar.gz`;
         return {
           exe: "./slint-lsp/slint-lsp",
         };
       },
       version: () => getLatestGithubRelease("slint-ui/slint"),
     },
     {
       name: "typescript-language-server",
       download: async () => {
         await $`npm install typescript-language-server`;
         return {
           exe: "./node_modules/typescript-language-server/lib/cli.mjs",
           dir: ".",
         };
       },
       version: () => getLatestNpmVersion("typescript-language-server"),
     },
  ],
);

await chef.start();