tea/cli 0.25.2

tea puts the whole open source ecosystem at your fingertips:

$ node
command not found: node

$ sh <(curl tea.xyz)
installing ~/.tea…

$ node
tea: installing ~/.tea/nodejs.org/v19.7.0 and 9 other pkgs…

Welcome to Node.js v19.7.0.
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Nobody wakes up in the morning and thinks:

I can’t wait to manage my packages today!

It’s tedious. It’s busy work. With tea just type what you want and let us handle the rest.

 

Scripting is powerful—once you’ve done all that frustrating setup. tea abstracts away all the boring bits so you can focus on the fun stuff:

$ tea ./script.py
tea: installing ~/.tea/python.org/v3.11.1
# ^^ local scripts: nps

$ tea https://examples.deno.land/color-logging.ts
tea: installing ~/.tea/deno.land/v1.31.2
# ^^ remote scripts: also fine

$ tea ./favicon-generator input.png
tea: installing image-magick, optipng, guetzli and 3 other packages…
favicon-generator: favicon-128.png
# ^^ any package from anywhere: check

$ cat favicon-generator
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# ^^ tea reads the shebang and automatically installs ruby
#---
# dependencies:
#   imagemagick.org: 4
#   optipng.sourceforge.net: 1
#---
# ^^ tea reads the YAML Front Matter and installs everything else too!

 

You need specific versions of tools not just whatever the package manager happens to have today.

$ node^16 --version
tea: installing node^16
v16.19.0

Projects require a range of tools and versions. tea provides lightweight containers that we call “developer environments”:

$ rustc --version
tea: installing rust-lang.org
v1.68.0

$ echo <<EoYAML >> my-project/cargo.toml
#---
# dependencies:
#   rust-lang.org: ~1.67
#---
EoYAML

$ cd my-project
$ rustc --version
tea: installing ~/.tea/rust-lang.org/v1.67.1
v1.67.1

Every package has uniquely named project configuration files. With other package managers pinning a version can be impossible but with tea add some YAML Front Matter and we can fetch the specific version you need (and anything else you might desire too).

PSA: Stop using Docker

Docker is great for deployment and cross compilation, but… let’s face it: it sucks for dev.

Docker stifles builders. It constricts you; you’re immalleable; tech marches onwards but your docker container remains immobile. Nobody knows how to use docker. Once that Dockerfile is set up, nobody dares touch it.

And let’s face it, getting your personal dev and debug tools working inside that image is incredibly frustrating. Why limit your potential?

Keep deploying with Docker, but use tea to develop.

Then when you do deploy you may as well install those deps with tea.

Frankly, tea is properly versioned (unlike system packagers) so with tea your deployments actually remain more stable.

 

The open source ecosystem is a treasure trove of tools and libraries but trying new things out can be intimidating… Not any more:

$ tea +rust-lang.org sh
tea: this is a temporary shell containing rust-lang.org and 3 other pkgs
tea: type `exit` when done

tea $ rustc --version
rustc 1.65.0

tea $ exit

$ which rustc
command not found: rustc

tea’s +pkg syntax adds packages to an environment and then executes commands within it. This can make trying out seemingly complex projects trivial, eg. setting up your environment for the stable-diffusion-webui project can be quite tricky, but not so with tea:

$ git clone https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui
$ tea \
  --cd stable-diffusion-webui \
  +python.org~3.10 +pip.pypa.io +gnu.org/wget +protobuf.dev +rust-lang.org \
  ./webui.sh

 

Getting Started

tea is a standalone, cross-platform binary (releases); all the same we recommend our installer:

sh <(curl https://tea.xyz)

Our one-liner sets up in ~/.tea and enables magic but it actually can do a whole bunch more. For all the deets and other ways to install (including our GitHub Action) check out the manual docs.tea.xyz.

 

Documentation & Manual

You want all the docs? We got all the docs. docs.tea.xyz

 

Support

We appreciate your using tea and would love to help you solve any problems you may be having.

• github.com/orgs/teaxyz/discussions
• discord.tea.xyz

 

Contributing

• If you have suggestions or ideas, start a discussion. If we agree, we’ll move it to an issue. Bug fixes straight to pull request or issue please!
• If you want to add a new package to tea then visit the pantry.

Hacking on tea/cli

tea is written in TypeScript using deno.

git clone https://github.com/teaxyz/cli tea
cd tea

deno task run foo   # runs the local checkout passing `foo` as an argument
deno task install   # deploys the local checkout into your `~/.tea`