Homebrew/BrewUI

🧑‍💻 BrewUI

Homebrew's official macOS GUI: making package management approachable for users who prefer graphical interfaces over Terminal, while maintaining complete transparency about underlying Homebrew operations.

💡 Motivation

Enable CLI-averse users to safely discover, install, update and manage Homebrew packages through a native SwiftUI interface that never hides what Homebrew is doing.

📲 Tech

• Swift with strict concurrency · SwiftUI · Swift Package Manager
• Toolchain and macOS requirements: Package.swift, .swift-version and Xcode project
• Data from the brew CLI and the Homebrew JSON API

📦 Installation

brew install --cask homebrew-app

Homebrew configuration

Put Homebrew options in brew.env and relaunch BrewUI after changing them. Shell aliases and exported variables do not configure the app. See Homebrew configuration.

🛠️ Development

After cloning:

./scripts/bootstrap

This installs Mint from Brewfile, runs mint bootstrap to build the SwiftFormat and SwiftLint versions pinned in Mintfile, enables repository git hooks and resolves Swift package dependencies for Homebrew.xcodeproj.

After bootstrap, commits automatically run checks on staged Swift files:

1. mint run swiftformat 2. mint run swiftlint (with --fix, then strict validation)

The hook also runs BrewUILint over the production tree. If unresolved lint violations remain, the commit is blocked and the hook prints the failures so you can fix and re-commit.

See development setup for signing configuration, conventions and testing for contributor guidance and architecture for system design.

🚧 Status

Stable and under active development.

📄 Licence

AGPL-3.0. If you reuse or adapt the source the AGPL terms apply, including the network-use clause.