# Install yeet with Homebrew Packaging tool that lets you declare build instructions in JavaScript. Version 0.11.0 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. ## Install ```sh sudo av install brew:yeet ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install yeet ``` Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata ## Package facts - **Package key:** brew:yeet - **Package manager:** Homebrew - **Package manager page:** - **Version:** 0.11.0 - **Source summary:** Packaging tool that lets you declare build instructions in JavaScript - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Upstream docs:** - **License:** MIT - **Source archive:** - **Generated:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00 ## Executables - yeet (cli) - yeet (alias) ## Build dependencies - go ## Install behavior - Post-install hook: not defined - Bottle: available on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux ## Freshness - Page generated: 2026-07-08 - Package-manager version: 0.11.0 - Local data: ok - Upstream repository: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/yeet - Upstream latest detected: v0.11.0 (current) - info: No package-manager update timestamp was available. ## Project history and usage yeet is a Go-based packaging/build helper that runs small JavaScript `yeetfile.js` recipes. It targets the gap between shell scripts and full custom programs, with helpers for native packages, container operations, Git metadata, file installation, and language-specific build steps. ### Project history The TecharoHQ/yeet repository was created on 2025-03-28. Its README presents the project as a way to declare build instructions as small JavaScript snippets, with a first-class `yeetfile.js` example that builds a Go program into an RPM. The API documentation explains a deliberate design boundary: yeet executes JavaScript with goja, does not provide npm access, and does not allow importing code or data from other files. Reusable functionality is expected to become a native yeet interface instead of a local JavaScript dependency tree. The tool evolved around practical packaging helpers: `deb`, `rpm`, and `tarball`-style native package builders, systemd extension and portable-service images, Docker aliases, Git helpers, file helpers, Go build helpers, and package upload integrations. ### Adoption history Yeet is a young, niche tool, so adoption evidence is necessarily light. Its README links a Repology packaging-status badge, pkg.go.dev indexes the Go module, Homebrew packages the command, and Techaro discussions mention using yeet while testing Techaro apt/rpm repository definitions. Its likely adopters are maintainers of Go or mixed-language projects who want packaging recipes to stay close to source without writing full RPM spec/deb-helper machinery by hand for every simple artifact. ### How it is used A project adds a `yeetfile.js` and calls helpers such as `rpm.build` or `deb.build` with descriptor objects. The build callback can invoke shell commands with the `$` tagged-template helper and place compiled output in the package layout paths supplied by yeet. The API docs also show uses beyond simple packages: building systemd configuration extensions, system extensions, portable service images, Docker images, copying files while preserving modes, reading Git tags, and uploading binary packages to Gitea-backed repositories. ### Why package nerds care Yeet is package-nerd significant because it is packaging tooling about package production itself. It tries to make native artifacts scriptable while avoiding the full dependency sprawl of a JavaScript toolchain. Its no-import/no-npm rule is also notable: for packaging, fewer moving parts can be a feature. The project bakes common packaging operations into Go-backed helpers and leaves the recipe file as a compact declaration of what to build. ### Timeline - 2025-03-28: The TecharoHQ/yeet repository is created. - 2025: The README documents `yeetfile.js` recipes and native package examples. - 2025: The API documentation covers helpers for Debian packages, RPM packages, tarballs, Docker, Git, files, Go builds, Gitea uploads, and systemd image formats. - 2025-05-26: A Techaro Anubis discussion references a proof-of-concept apt/rpm repository for testing packages including yeet. ### Related projects - Related projects and technologies include goja, RPM packaging, Debian packaging, systemd portable services, systemd system extensions, Docker, Gitea package registries, Go build tooling, npm scripts, Make, goreleaser, nfpm, and project-local build recipes. ### Sources - - - - - - - ## Security Notes narrow executable package without higher-risk signals. - **Geiger risk:** green / low - narrow executable package without higher-risk signals ## Configuration and credential file locations These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval. ## Configuration files - Unix: yeetfile.js ## Source Database Details - **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API - **Tap:** homebrew/core - **Full Name:** yeet - **Version Scheme:** 0 - **Revision:** 0 - **Head Version:** HEAD - **Bottle Stable Root URL:** - **Deprecated:** no - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** head, stable ## Related links - [Source-control packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/source-control-tools/) - Belongs to a source-control command family. - [Package publisher tools](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/package-publishers/) - Belongs to a package publishing or registry command family. - [Terminal utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata. - [Text processing packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/text-processing-tools/) - Matched text, document, or structured-data processing metadata. - [go](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/go/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew. - [melange](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/melange/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: build-tools, cli, developer-tools, packaging. - [nfpm](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/nfpm/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, deb, developer-tools, packaging, rpm. - [python-build](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/python-build/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: build-tools, cli, developer-tools, packaging. - [grunt-cli](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/grunt-cli/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: build-tool, build-tools, cli, developer-tools, javascript. - [hpack](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/hpack/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: build-tool, cli, developer-tools, packaging. - [maturin](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/maturin/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: build-tool, build-tools, cli, developer-tools, packaging. - [pulp](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/pulp/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: build-tool, build-tools, cli, developer-tools, javascript. - [rollup](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/rollup/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: build-tool, build-tools, cli, developer-tools, javascript. ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/yeet.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/yeet.yml) ## Sources - Nucleus package database - Geiger risk classifier - package-page enrichment - curated configuration and credential file locations - curated package history - package version freshness - av.db category and tag curation - package relationship graph - cross-ecosystem install command graph