Asdf – An Extendable Version Manager

• asdf-hashicorp

  6 223 4.6 Shell

  HashiCorp plugin for the asdf version manager

  

I've been using it and has contributed to it, but I wish it supported out of the box GitHub-based release binaries as 90% of my code for different vendors was relatively the same, so, instead of having multiple identical repositories, I created one, which uses introspection [0].

I wish this was available out of the box to handle literary 90% of the tools.

Also, I typically pair it with direnv [1] for even more magic.

[0]: https://github.com/Banno/asdf-hashicorp

[1]: https://direnv.net/

• asdf-postgres

  2 188 6.1 Shell

  asdf plugin for Postgres

It manages the version of the database that you run. https://github.com/smashedtoatoms/asdf-postgres

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• n-install

  1 791 4.2 Shell

  Installs n, the Node.js version manager, without needing to install Node.js first: curl -L https://bit.ly/n-install | bash

n is still the simplest node version manager I've come across [0]. Maybe worth checking out if you're looking for an alternative.

I also use the companion n-install [1] utility to get setup very quickly.

[0] https://github.com/tj/n

[1] https://github.com/mklement0/n-install

• asdf

  4 505 9.4 Python

  ASDF (Advanced Scientific Data Format) is a next generation interchange format for scientific data (by asdf-format)

  

Not the Advanced Scientific Data Format either.

https://github.com/asdf-format/asdf

• asdf

  2 1 0.0 Shell

  k14s asdf plugin (by carvel-dev)

  

I've also written a handful of plugins for asdf, and this is exactly my experience also - I even used the asdf-hashicorp library as the basis for https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/asdf-carvel

Seems like a lot of duplicated work across all these plugins

• asdf-erlang

  6 444 5.9 Shell

  Erlang plugin for asdf version manager

  

My greatest asdf wish (well, I guess not greatest since I've never taken the time to submit a patch...) is for supporting pre-compiled Erlang (see https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf-erlang/issues/120). It's often an adventure getting the whole team updated whenever we bump our Erlang version.

• asdf-nodejs

  26 851 5.6 Shell

  Node.js plugin for asdf version manager

  

I just checked it again and recall now what was turning me off: I found the installation of the node plugin tedious[1], it's just once but yeah, then asdf always forgot my node version and also I was missing an ls command for checking out installed versions and versions/lts-versions available remotely (nvm ls and ls-remote).

[1] https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf-nodejs

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• gitlab-development-kit

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We use it at GitLab since a few months in order to manage our development toolchain [0]. Before we had people using rvm, rbenv, nvm, homebrew, system packages and everything in between. Supporting our engineers and non-engineers has been a lot easier since asdf, and the whole version manager related issues calmed down a bit.

The only thing I miss from homebrew is the pre-compiled stuff like e.g. Postgres or redis

[0]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-development-kit/-/merge...

• DBngin

  21 879 0.0

  DB Engine

  

For Postgres & Redis version management, have you seen DBngin? It supports MySQL, too.

https://github.com/TablePlus/DBngin

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