3 > WebInstall is how developers install their tools
6 curl https://webinstall.dev/webi | bash
9 This repository contains the primary and community-submitted packages for
10 [webinstall.dev](https://webinstall.dev).
12 # Installer Guidelines
14 - Should install to `$HOME/.local/opt/<package>-<version>` or `$HOME/.local/bin`
15 - Should not need `sudo` (except perhaps for a one-time `setcap`, etc)
18 - Node.js: <https://github.com/webinstall/packages/tree/master/node>
19 - Golang: <https://github.com/webinstall/packages/tree/master/golang>
20 - PostgreSQL: <https://github.com/webinstall/packages/tree/master/postgres>
21 - Single-Binary Installers:
22 - Caddy: <https://github.com/webinstall/packages/tree/master/caddy>
23 - Ripgrep: <https://github.com/webinstall/packages/tree/master/ripgrep>
24 - Gitea: <https://github.com/webinstall/packages/tree/master/gitea>
25 - Convenience Scripts:
26 - Prettier: <https://github.com/webinstall/packages/tree/master/prettier>
27 - Rust-lang: <https://github.com/webinstall/packages/tree/master/rustlang>
28 - Rust-lang: <https://github.com/webinstall/packages/tree/master/vim-sensible>
32 - Contacts official release APIs for download URLs
33 - Selects the appropriate package version and archive format
34 - Installs to `$HOME/.local/`
35 - Updates `PATH` via `$HOME/.config/envman/PATH.env`
36 - Symlinks or copies current selected version
40 1. `<package>/releases.js` transforms the package's release API into a common formatt
41 - (i.e. HTML, CSV, TAB, or JSON into a specific JSON format)
42 - common release APIs are in `_common/` (i.e. `_common/github.js`)
43 2. `_webi/bootstrap.sh` is a template that exchanges system information for a correct installer
44 - contructs a user agent with os, cpu, and utility info (i.e. `macos`, `amd64`, can unpack `tar,zip,xz`)
45 3. `_webi/template.sh` is the base installer template with common functions for
47 - downloading & unpacking
49 - (re-)linking directories
50 4. `<package>/install.sh` may provide functions to override `_webi/template.sh`
52 - `curl https://webinstall.dev/<pkg>` => `bootstrap-<pkg>.sh`
53 - `bash bootstrap-<pkg>.sh` => `https://webinstall.dev/api/installers/<pkg>@<ver>.sh?formats=zip,tar`
54 - `bash install-<pkg>.sh` => download, unpack, move, link, update PATH
56 ## Creating an Installer
58 An install consists of 5 parts in 4 files:
70 3. Version Check (semi-optional)
73 See these **examples**:
75 - https://github.com/webinstall/packages/blob/master/rg/
76 - https://github.com/webinstall/packages/blob/master/golang/
78 The `webinstall.dev` server uses the list of releases returned by
79 `<your-package>/releases.js` to generate a bash script with most necessary
80 variables and functions pre-defined.
82 You just fill in the blanks.
86 Just create an empty directory and run the tests until you get a good result.
89 git clone git@github.com:webinstall/packages.git
96 node _webi/test.js ./new-package/
99 ### 1. Create Description
101 Just copy the format from any of the existing packages. It's like this:
107 # homepage: https://nodejs.org
108 # tagline: JavaScript V8 runtime
110 # Node.jsĀ® is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine
113 # node -e 'console.log("Hello, World!")'
120 This is a dumb format. We know. Historical accident (originally these were in
123 It's in the TODOs to replace this with either YAML or Markdown.
125 ### 1. Fetch Releases
127 All you're doing in this step is just translating from one form of JSON or CSV
128 or TAB or whatever, to a format understood by `webi`.
130 - Using Github releases? See `ripgrep/releases.js` (which uses
132 - Have a special format? See `golang/releases.js` or `node/releases.js`.
139 module.exports = function (request) {
140 return github(request, owner, repo).then(function (all) {
141 // if you need to do something special, you can do it here
148 ### 2. Bash Installer
150 1. Variables _you_ can set
151 2. Functions _you_ must define
152 3. Convenience / Helper Functions
154 (optional, if needed) Bash variables that you _may_ define:
157 # Define this if the package name is different from the command name (i.e. golang => go)
158 pkg_cmd_name="foobar"
160 # These are used for symlinks, PATH, and test commands
161 pkg_dst="$HOME/.local/opt/foobar"
162 pkg_dst_bin="$HOME/.local/opt/foobar/bin"
163 pkg_dst_cmd="$HOME/.local/opt/foobar/bin/foobar"
165 # These are the _real_ locations for the above
166 pkg_src="$HOME/.local/opt/foobar-v$WEBI_VERSION"
167 pkg_src_bin="$HOME/.local/opt/foobar-v$WEBI_VERSION/bin"
168 pkg_src_cmd="$HOME/.local/opt/foobar-v$WEBI_VERSION/bin/foobar"
171 (required) A version check function that strips all non-version junk
174 pkg_get_current_version() {
175 # foobar-v1.1.7 => 1.1.7
176 echo "$(foobar --version | head -n 1 | sed 's:foobar-v::')"
180 For the rest of the functions you can like copy/paste from the examples:
183 pkg_format_cmd_version() {} # Override, pretty prints version
185 pkg_link # Override, replaces webi_link()
187 pkg_pre_install() { # Override, runs any webi_* commands
188 webi_check # for $HOME/.local/opt tools
189 webi_download # for things that have a releases.js
190 webi_extract # for .xz, .tar.*, and .zip files
193 pkg_install() {} # Override, usually just needs to rename extracted folder to
194 # "$HOME/.local/opt/$pkg_cmd_name-v$WEBI_VERSION"
196 pkg_post_install() { # Override
197 webi_path_add "$pkg_dst_bin" # should probably update PATH
200 pkg_done_message() {} # Override, pretty print a success message
205 See `webi/template.sh`
207 These variables will be set by the server:
213 WEBI_HOST=https://webinstall.dev
214 WEBI_RELEASES=https://webinstall.dev/api/releases/example@v1?os=macos&arch=amd64&pretty=true
223 WEBI_PKG_URL=https://cdn.example.com/example-macos-amd64.tar.gz
224 WEBI_PKG_FILE=example-macos-amd64.tar.gz
228 WEBI_TMP=${WEBI_TMP:-"$(mktemp -d -t webinstall-foobar.XXXXXXXX)"}
233 webi_check # Checks to see if the selected version is already installed (and re-links if so)
234 webi_download # Downloads the selected release to $HOME/Downloads/<package-name>.tar.gz
235 webi_extract # Extracts the download to /tmp/<package-name>-<random>/
236 webi_path_add /new/path # Adds /new/path to PATH for bash, zsh, and fish
237 webi_pre_install # Runs webi_check, webi_download, and webi_extract
238 webi_install # Moves extracted files from $WEBI_TMP to $pkg_src
239 webi_link # replaces any existing symlink with the currently selected version
240 webi_post_install # Runs `webi_add_path $pkg_dst_bin`
245 - Wrap release APIs to unify and expose
246 - [ ] Support arbitrary git urls (i.e. `@github.com/node/node`)
247 - (maybe `ghi node/node` for github specifically)
248 - [ ] Support git as an archive format