Homebrew

What is Homebrew?

Homebrew installs the stuff you need that Apple didn’t. Homebrew installs packages to their own directory and then symlinks their files into /usr/local.

Homebrew is a tool in the Build Automation category of a tech stack.

Homebrew Pros & Cons

Pros of Homebrew

✓Clean, neat, powerful, fast and furious

Cons of Homebrew

No cons listed yet.

Homebrew Integrations

Ruby, cURL, GNU Bash, Akutan, Localazy and 2 more are some of the popular tools that integrate with Homebrew. Here's a list of all 7 tools that integrate with Homebrew.

Homebrew Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Homebrew?

NuGet

A free and open-source package manager designed for the Microsoft development platform. It is also distributed as a Visual Studio extension.

RubyGems

It is a package manager for the Ruby programming language that provides a standard format for distributing Ruby programs and libraries, a tool designed to easily manage the installation of gems, and a server for distributing them.

Bower

Bower is a package manager for the web. It offers a generic, unopinionated solution to the problem of front-end package management, while exposing the package dependency model via an API that can be consumed by a more opinionated build stack. There are no system wide dependencies, no dependencies are shared between different apps, and the dependency tree is flat.

Terraform Registry

With Terraform, you describe your complete infrastructure as code, even as it spans multiple service providers. Your servers may come from AWS, your DNS may come from CloudFlare, and your database may come from Heroku. Terraform will build all these resources across all these providers in parallel.

Homebrew Integrations

Ruby, cURL, GNU Bash, Akutan, Localazy and 2 more are some of the popular tools that integrate with Homebrew. Here's a list of all 7 tools that integrate with Homebrew.