Brewfile?

[leoj3n]

Have you considered generating a Brewfile instead of .cask?

See: :beer: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/pull/24107

Example: https://github.com/pstadler/dotfiles/blob/master/Caskfile

[seethroughdev]

Yeah, that seems really cool. And looks like its integrating directly into homebrew. I could broaden the scope of this project to check for existing brew packages as well. And generate a .brew instead of a .cask. Is that what you're thinking would be best? I haven't used brew bundle yet. So not sure if that already covers this.

[leoj3n]

Well since your program already assumes homebrew is installed, all it needs to do is "reverse bundle".

Essentially that means spitting out a Brewfile and a Caskfile. That'd make the most sense, I think.

Then users can use the brew bundle command on those files, respectively.

[leoj3n]

You might rename the repo to "brew-reverse-bundle" or something like that.

[seethroughdev]

Yeah, I like that...

Ideally it should scan your installed brew files to give you a full list for both brew and cask. For cask, I parse the github repo for casks. Let me see how I can get a list of just brews. I'll update in a bit.

[seethroughdev]

Okay, I'm really close. Will push something new tomorrow.

[seethroughdev]

Okay, did a full rewrite to include Brewfile and Caskfiles. It also generates a .brew file. If you get a chance to try it, I'd love some feedback on it.

[seethroughdev]

Hey @leoj3n, the app is ready for some testing, if you feel like it does the trick, I'll go ahead and close this issue. Let me know. Thanks.

[leoj3n]

I wouldn't add the dot in front of Brewfile or Caskfile, f.ex: https://coderwall.com/p/afmnbq

Anyways, it works wonders! This is extremely useful. I'd actually like to see this in homebrew and brew-cask as core functions but the devil's in the details so for now this is perfect!

[pstadler]

I'd remove the dot in front of Brewfile and Caskfile as well.

A couple of remarks:

• I have a lot of dependencies from packages I uninstalled some time ago. Cleaning them up is tiring work. Your script is not helping here as far as I can see
• Why is this written in node.js? Bash would make more sense, or Ruby (which happens to be a Homebrew dependency)

:+1:

[seethroughdev]

Thanks @leoj3n and @pstadler for taking a closer look...

I removed the dot before the Brewfile and Caskfile.

• re: language - I totally understand why this should be written in Ruby or Bash. It actually just started with me learning the node fs api with promises. and led to this. I'm not qualified to write in either of those languages, but if someone wants to implement, I'll help wherever possible.
• re: dependencies - There are more than necessary because I'm using promises and they're not native yet. But as long as you're only installing locally. Cleaning them up should be as easy as deleting the node_modules folder.

Thanks again. And let me know any time if you guys see something that needs improvement.