devtool 0.3.4

A CLI tool for development in update rustup toolchain, mise maintained tools and homebrew packages.
devtool-0.3.4 is not a library.

devtool 🚀

A modern, efficient developer tool written in Rust that unifies the update process for your development environment tools and package managers with a single command. Say goodbye to multiple update commands and let devtool keep everything up to date.

Crates.io License: MIT OR Apache-2.0 Rust

✨ Features

  • One-command updates: Run devtool to automatically update multiple supported tools
  • Smart detection: Automatically detects installed tools (Homebrew, rustup, mise) and skips uninstalled ones
  • Beautiful progress feedback: Real-time progress bars and status updates in the terminal
  • Detailed logging: Each step's output is logged for easy troubleshooting
  • Execution summary: Clear summary showing which tools were updated, already latest, or failed
  • Dry run mode: Use --dry-run to preview steps without making changes
  • External status monitoring: Query real-time status with devtool progress-status for integration with other tools
  • Multi-language support: Automatically detects system language and displays Chinese or English interface
  • Version information: Check version with devtool -V or devtool --version

🛠️ Supported Tools

devtool currently supports automatic detection and updating of:

  • Homebrew: Update index, upgrade packages, cleanup old versions
  • Rust (rustup): Update stable Rust toolchain
  • Mise (formerly rtx): Run mise up to update all managed languages and tools (Node.js, Python, etc.)

📦 Installation

From crates.io (Recommended)

cargo install devtool

Make sure ~/.cargo/bin is in your PATH environment variable.

From source

git clone https://github.com/jenkinpan/devtool-rs.git
cd devtool-rs
cargo build --release
cargo install --path .

🚀 Usage

Basic Usage

Simply run devtool in your terminal to start the update process:

devtool

This is equivalent to running devtool update.

Command Line Options

Customize devtool behavior with these options:

Option Short Description
--dry-run -n Show steps that would be executed without actually running them
--verbose -v Print detailed output for each step during execution
--version -V Show version information
--keep-logs Keep log files for each step, stored in ~/.cache/devtool/ by default
--no-banner Don't show startup banner
--compact Use more compact output format for non-interactive environments
--parallel (Not implemented) Execute update steps in parallel
--no-color Disable colored output
--help -h Show help information

Examples

Standard update:

$ devtool
🚀 Starting devtool update: 2025-10-04 13:17:20
📋 Will execute 5 steps:
  1) Homebrew: Update index
  2) Homebrew: Upgrade packages
  3) Action: Cleanup old versions
  4) Rust: Update stable toolchain
  5) Mise: Update managed tools
[========================================] 5/5 (100%) | Mise: Update managed tools

🎉 Update completed: 2025-10-04 13:18:04 (Time taken: 14秒)
✅ Updated: Action: Cleanup old versions
⚠️ Already latest: Homebrew: Update index, Homebrew: Upgrade packages, Rust: Update stable toolchain, Mise: Update managed tools

Dry run:

devtool --dry-run

Check version:

devtool -V
# Output: devtool 0.3.3

Monitor progress (for scripts or status bars):

Run devtool in one terminal, query progress in another:

devtool progress-status
# Output: Progress status: ProgressStatus { state: "update", percent: Some(60), done: Some(3), total: Some(5), desc: Some("Action: Cleanup old versions"), ts: Some("2025-10-04T13:17:45.123+08:00") }

Language support:

The tool automatically detects your system language and displays the interface in Chinese or English accordingly.

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit issues and pull requests on the GitHub repository.

📜 License

This project is licensed under both MIT License and Apache License 2.0.

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