Use this command to install impulsar:

winget install --id=aimotrens.impulsar -e

impulsar is a tool, to run named tasks with different backends from your shell.

Impulsar is a command-line tool designed to streamline and automate tasks in your development workflow by running named jobs with different backends directly from your shell. Built with Go, it offers a flexible and efficient way to manage repetitive or complex operations.

Key Features:

Simple Configuration: Uses a YAML-based file for defining jobs, making setup intuitive and easy to maintain.
Job Dependencies: Define relationships between tasks to ensure they run in the correct order.
Foreach Loop Support: Execute jobs with varying sets of environment variables across multiple iterations.
Cross-Platform Compatibility: Works seamlessly across different operating systems.

Audience & Benefit: Ideal for developers, DevOps engineers, and anyone seeking to automate shell-based workflows. Impulsar helps reduce manual effort by enabling the execution of complex tasks with a single command, saving time and increasing efficiency. It can be installed via winget for easy setup.

README

Simplify your dev jobs!

impulsar is a tool, written in Go, to run tasks in your shell. It is a easy to use tool that can help you to automate your daily tasks.

Features

Simple: impulsar has a simple but powerful YAML based configuration file.
Easy to use: Start one or more tasks (called jobs) with a single command.
Job dependencies: You can define dependencies between jobs.
Foreach: Run jobs with different sets of EnvVars in a foreach like loop.

Quickstart

Download

Download the latest release, that meets your platform, from the releases page and extract it to a directory in your PATH.

Create a configuration file

Create a file named impulsar.yml with the following content:

hello:
  script:
    - echo "Hello from impulsar!"

Run impulsar

Run impulsar with the following command:

impulsar run hello

hello is the name of the job defined in the configuration file.

Documentation

For more information, please visit the documentation.

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