jq VS HomeBrew

Compare jq vs HomeBrew and see what are their differences.

HomeBrew

🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux) (by Homebrew)
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jq HomeBrew
52 1,281
29,042 39,303
1.7% 1.5%
9.4 10.0
2 days ago 6 days ago
C Ruby
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

jq

Posts with mentions or reviews of jq. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-21.
  • Frawk: An efficient Awk-like programming language. (2021)
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Apr 2024
  • Dehydrated: Letsencrypt/acme client implemented as a shell-script
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Apr 2024
  • I turned my open-source project into a full-time business
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Feb 2024
    I think like you. But also, one does not necessarily know beforehand that they will want to make money.

    Like a project could be born out of pure generosity, but after the happy initial phase the project might get too heavy on the maintenance requirements, causing the author to approach burnout, and possibly deciding that they want to make money to continue pulling the cart forward.

    However, here's something I do think: if you create something as Open Source, it should be out of a mentality of goodwill and for the greater good, regardless of how it ends up being used. OSS licenses do mean this with their terms. If you later get tired or burned out, you should just retire and allow the community to keep taking care of it. Just like it happened with the Jq tool [1].

    [1]: https://github.com/jqlang/jq/releases/tag/jq-1.7

  • How to load JSON data in PostgreSQL with the the COPY command
    1 project | dev.to | 2 Feb 2024
    In this blog we'll see how to upload the JSON directly using PostgreSQL COPY command and using an utility called jq!
  • How to Recover Locally Deleted Files From Github
    1 project | dev.to | 31 Jan 2024
    And we can then make it easier to find the commit by filtering the response with jq.
  • Essential Command Line Tools for Developers
    29 projects | dev.to | 15 Jan 2024
    Official Documentation: jqlang.github.io/jq
  • Command line tools I always install on Ubuntu servers
    4 projects | dev.to | 25 Dec 2023
    To handle JSON files and JSON outputs in a script or format and highlight it, jq can be very handy. Many command line tools provide a json output, so you don't have to write a custom parser for a table a list in a terminal. Instead of that, you can use jq to get a specific value from the output or even modify the output. For more information, you can visit https://jqlang.github.io/jq/
  • How I use Nix in my Elm projects
    8 projects | dev.to | 19 Dec 2023
    In some projects I've wanted to use HTTPie to test APIs and jq to work with some JSON data. Nix has been really helpful in managing those dependencies that I can't easily get from npm.
  • Gooey: Turn almost any Python command line program into a full GUI application
    14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Dec 2023
    > I'd love to see programs communicate through a typed JSON/proto format that shed enough details to make this more independent, and get useful shell command structuring/completion or full blown GUIs from simply introspecting the expected input and output types.

    You should try PowerShell. It's basically Microsoft's .NET ecosystem molded into an interactive command line. I'm not entirely sure if PoweShell can make full use of the static types that build up its core, but its ability to exchange objects in the command line is almost unmatched.

    On Linux you can use `jc` (https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jc) combined with `jq` (https://jqlang.github.io/jq/) to glue together command lines.

  • To a Man with `Jq`, Everything Looks Like JSON
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Dec 2023
    Yeah, but muscle memory bites me all the time and I put the backslash on the closing paren, too, because I'm so used to the regex usage of that syntax which needs them to match

    I also want to draw the reader's attention to the magic of |@uri <https://github.com/jqlang/jq/blob/jq-1.7/docs/content/manual...> for a bunch of cases, but doubly so in TFA's case where they're plugging strings into a URI context. Simple string concat often works great for "hello world", but the world is not always just hello, so one quick use of the filter and jq's got your back

      echo "the world's scary" | jq -Rr '"\(.)"'

HomeBrew

Posts with mentions or reviews of HomeBrew. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-08.
  • Top Homebrew Alternative: ServBay Becomes the Go-To for Developers
    1 project | dev.to | 18 Apr 2024
    Homebrew is a highly popular package manager on macOS and Linux systems, enabling users to easily install, update, and uninstall command-line tools and applications. Its design philosophy focuses on simplifying the software installation process on macOS, eliminating the need for manual downloads and compilations of software packages.
  • Software Engineering Workflow
    6 projects | dev.to | 8 Apr 2024
    Homebrew - package manager for linux-based OSs.
  • Simulate your first Lightning transaction on the Bitcoin regtest network Part 1 (MacOS)
    3 projects | dev.to | 30 Mar 2024
    Package Manager: Homebrew
  • Tools for Linux Distro Hoppers
    7 projects | dev.to | 27 Mar 2024
    Hopping from one distro to another with a different package manager might require some time to adapt. Using a package manager that can be installed on most distro is one way to help you get to work faster. Flatpak is one of them; other alternative are Snap, Nix or Homebrew. Flatpak is a good starter, and if you have a bunch of free time, I suggest trying Nix.
  • SQLite Schema Diagram Generator
    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Mar 2024
    Are you using SQLite that ships with macOS, or SQLite installed from homebrew?

    I had a different problem in the past with the SQLite that ships with macOS, and have been using SQLite from homebrew since.

    So if it’s the one that comes with macOS that gives you this problem that you are having, try using SQLite from homebrew instead.

    https://brew.sh/

  • How to install (Ubuntu 22.10 VM) vagrant on Mac M1 ship using QEMU
    1 project | dev.to | 21 Mar 2024
    Before we begin, make sure you have Homebrew installed on your Mac. Homebrew is a package manager that makes it easy to install software and dependencies. You can install Homebrew by following the instructions on their website: https://brew.sh/
  • Perfect Elixir: Environment Setup
    3 projects | dev.to | 18 Mar 2024
    I’m on MacOS and erlang.org, elixir-lang.org, and postgresql.org all suggest installation via Homebrew, which is a very popular package manager for MacOS.
  • You're Installing Node.js Wrong. That's OK, Here Is How To Fix It 🙌
    2 projects | dev.to | 14 Mar 2024
    I have always either installed Node from the installer provided by the Nodejs website or, via Brew in macOS. I have also used nvm in the past but did not know that there was a best practice to guide us.
  • Test Driving a Rails API - Part One
    11 projects | dev.to | 11 Mar 2024
    A running Rails application needs a database to connect to. You may already have your database of choice installed, but if not, I recommend PostgreSQL, or Postgres for short. On a Mac, probably the easiest way to install it is with Posrgres.app. Another option, the one I prefer, is to use Homebrew. With Homebrew installed, this command will install PostgreSQL version 16 along with libpq:
  • Effective Neovim Setup. A Beginner’s Guide
    5 projects | dev.to | 9 Mar 2024
    On a macOS machine, you can use homebrew by running the command.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing jq and HomeBrew you can also consider the following projects:

yq - Command-line YAML, XML, TOML processor - jq wrapper for YAML/XML/TOML documents

spack - A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.

jp - Validate and transform JSON with Bash

asdf - Extendable version manager with support for Ruby, Node.js, Elixir, Erlang & more

gojq - Pure Go implementation of jq

Visual Studio Code - Visual Studio Code

Jolt - JSON to JSON transformation library written in Java.

winget-cli - WinGet is the Windows Package Manager. This project includes a CLI (Command Line Interface), PowerShell modules, and a COM (Component Object Model) API (Application Programming Interface).

dasel - Select, put and delete data from JSON, TOML, YAML, XML and CSV files with a single tool. Supports conversion between formats and can be used as a Go package.

osxfuse - FUSE extends macOS by adding support for user space file systems

jmespath.py - JMESPath is a query language for JSON.

Chocolatey - Chocolatey - the package manager for Windows