Installation
You can install Just through Homebrew (for MacOS users), Scoop (for Windows users) or by downloading the binaries directly.
Homebrew
Recommended for MacOS users:
brew install maciejwalkowiak/brew/just
Scoop
Recommended for Windows users:
- Add a bucket to Scoop:
scoop bucket add maciejwalkowiak https://github.com/maciejwalkowiak/scoop-just.git
- Install Just:
scoop install just
Manually
If you are not able to use the package manager, you can always install just manually.
| Command to install |
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curl -Lo just.zip https://github.com/maciejwalkowiak/just/releases/latest/download/just-0.13.0-osx-x86_64.zip && unzip just.zip && chmod +x just && sudo mv just /usr/local/bin/just && just help |
just needs Linux distrubution with glibc 2.34 installed (for example Ubuntu 22.04 LTS).
| Command to install |
|---|
curl -Lo just.zip https://github.com/maciejwalkowiak/just/releases/latest/download/just-0.13.0-linux-x86_64.zip && unzip just.zip && chmod +x just && sudo mv just /usr/local/bin/just && just help |
Download just-0.12.0-windows-x86_64.zip, unzip it, and place just.exe somewhere in your PATH.
Enable Testcontainers "reuse" feature
Info
This step is recommended but not required for Just to work.
Just heavily relies on the Testcontainers to start Docker containers. To improve Just startup times, enable Testcontainers reuse feature by setting testcontainers.reuse.enable to true in testcontainers.properties file located in your home directory:
In ~/.testcontainers.properties:
testcontainers.reuse.enable=true
Install Maven Daemon
Info
This step is recommended but not required for Just to work.
To improve performance of running and reloading Maven projects it is recommended to install Maven Daemon.
Test if it works
Once just is installed you should be able to execute from your terminal just help command:
Intellij IDEA integration
While you can run just from the command line you may prefer to run it directly from Intellij IDEA.