Minimal Development Brewfile. Download., then run `brew bundle`

Brewfile

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# © 2026 Konstantin Gredeskoul

# This is the "minimum" development tooling list of Brew Packages
# that every developer should have on their MacOS system. It's 
# nowhere near complete, and is minimal for a reason (for those
# that prefer minimalistic approach).
#
# The Brewfile is a relatively recent concept that `brew` on MacOS
# supports. If you ever worked with Ruby, you'd know what the Gemfile
# is, as well as the auto-generated Gemfile.lock. For frontend developers,
# the same thing applies to package.json and package-lock.json.
#
# USING IT
# $ brew bundle --no-upgrade
#
# This commands installs all the packages (or casks) defined in this
# file, and generates Brewfile.lock.json. If you check that file in, 
# and on another system run `brew bundle --no-upgrade` it will ensure
# that: install does not run brew upgrade on outdated dependencies. 
# check does not check for outdated dependencies. Note they may still 
# be upgraded by brew install if needed. 
# 
# Generally this command defaults to the --upgrade option, which
# will upgrade these packages to the latest versions and update the 
# lock file, leaving you to check it in to the repository.
#
# @see https://docs.brew.sh/Brew-Bundle-and-Brewfile
# @see https://gist.github.com/kigster/064281da409ffcd498d39d68ea8dd303
#
# NOTE: on MacOS arm64 all binaries are symlinked (and available from)
#       /opt/homebrew/bin directory. 
#
# Just remember to either add Homebrew plugin to your shell manager, or 
# add the following to your ~/.bash_profile: 
# eval "$(brew shellenv)"

brew 'bash'               # Installs bash v5 on MacOS
brew 'bat'                # Like cat but syntax highlights code
brew 'bottom'             # Modern, interactive, full-screen system monitor.
brew 'btop'               # Modern, interactive, full-screen system monitor.
brew 'codespell'          # Checks spelling in the source code
brew 'coreutils'          # GNU tools
brew 'ctop'               # Container terminal, a modern, interactive, full-screen system monitor for Docker and Kubernetes.
brew 'curl'               # Curl, a command line tool for transferring data with URLs.
brew 'direnv'             # direnv: set/unset environment as you cd in/out of a directory.
brew 'fd'                 # [rust] Replacement for `find` that's 1000 times better
brew 'gawk'               # gawk, replacement for ancient /usr/bin/awk
brew 'gsed'               # gsed, replacement for the ancient /usr/bin/sed
brew 'jq'                 # jq, JSON transformer / formatter / extractor.
brew 'just'               # Modern replacement for `make`, see https://just.systems
brew 'lefthook'           # Convenient git pre-commit hook aggregator 
brew 'mdformat'           # Markdown formatter
brew 'memcached'          # Caching server, not running by the default(1)
brew 'oha'                # Modern HTTP benchmark (replaces ab/wrk)
brew 'postgresql@18'      # PostgreSQL version 18. Not running by the default (1)
brew 'rbenv'              # Ruby version manager
brew 'redis'              # Redis Server, not running by the default (1) 
brew 'ripgrep'            # Modern replacement for grep, run as rg.
brew 'ruby-build'         # Ruby build tool and installer
brew 'ruff'               # Very fast Python linter and formatter.
brew 'uv'                 # An extremely fast Python package manager.
brew 'volta'              # An extremely fast Node package manager.
brew 'yq'                 # yq, YAML transformer / formatter / extractor.

# (1) Not running by the default means that this particular package can be 
#     run via `brew services` family of commands. For instance: 
#
#     brew services start postgresql@18
#     brew services stop postgresql@18
#     brew services restart postgresql@18
#     brew services list
#     brew services info postgresql@18
#     brew services logs postgresql@18
#     brew services cleanup postgresql@18
#     brew services reset postgresql@18
#     brew services restart postgresql@18
#     brew services restart postgresql@18