neo

Neo is a new package manager for the Nim programming language. It aims to:

• Have a clean, maintainable codebase
• Be simple to use
• Fix everything Nimble does badly
• Be as fast as possible (this includes multithreading)
• Interoperate with the existing Nimble infrastructure so that packages using Neo can easily be uploaded to the Nimble index
• Using modern algorithms since we're not scared of breaking things (like using SHA-256 for hashing)
• Add infrastructure for "custom targets" like WASM

Support

You can join the Discord server here for help with Neo, or to follow its development.

Roadmap

Neo is currently a ~2.1K LoC project, and has the following features ready and working:

• [X] neo build command
• [X] neo runcommand
• [X] neo search command
• [X] neo init command
• [X] neo search command
• [X] neo info command
• [X] neo add command
• [X] neo test command
• [X] neo lock command
• [X] Forge aliases
• [X] Dependency solver
• [X] Proper dependency management
• [X] Lockfiles
• [X] Dependency hash pinning

The following are pending tasks that will hopefully be completed soon:

• [ ] Tasks
• [ ] Hooks

Building Neo

Neo can be built using Neo itself, or via Nimble. To build it via itself, run:

$ neo build

Dependencies

• libcURL
• git

Usage

Creating a project

$ neo init myproject
  Project Type:
    1. Binary
    2. Library
    3. Hybrid
  
  License: GPL3

  Description: A super awesome Nim project

  Backend:
    > C
    > C++
    > JavaScript
    > Objective-C

Building your project

$ neo build --arguments --here --are --passed --to --nim
Building myproject with the C backend

Searching for packages

$ neo search url

 url  A high-performance URL parser based on the WHATWG standard.
 urlly  URL and URI parsing for C and JS backend.
 urlon  URL Object Notation implemented in Nim
 gurl  A little lib for generating URL with args.
 curly  Makes using libcurl efficiently easy
 unroll  unroll for-loops (and map into seq/array) at compile-time in nim
 curlies  A macro for object construction using {} (curlies).
 libcurl  Nim wrapper for libcurl.
 openurl  Open Any Url/File in the default App / WebBrowser.
 unrolled  Unroll for-loops at compile-time.
 urlshortener  A URL shortener cli app. using bit.ly
 dataUrl  Easily create data urls! CLI included
 shorturl  Nim module for generating URL identifiers for Tiny URL and bit.ly-like URLs
 osureplay  osu! replay parser
 surrealdb  SurrealDB driver for Nim

 ...  and 7 packages more (use --limit:<N> to see more)

Fetching information for a package

This causes the package to be downloaded, so that its additional metadata can be explored.

$ neo info jester
 Downloaded  jester@any
jester #web #http #framework #dsl
A sinatra-like web framework for Nim.
version: 0.6.0
license: MIT
documentation: https://github.com/dom96/jester
 notice  This project only has a `.nimble` file. If you own it, consider adding a `neo.toml` to it as well.