Installation

Editor Extensions

Some extensions will manage Expert for you.

Read more.

Package Managers

Homebrew

Not currently available in Homebrew. It will be added once we reach v0.1.

Mason

:MasonInstall expert

Nix

Nixpkgs

Not currently available in Nixpkgs. It will be added once we reach v0.1.

Flake

We provide a flake that can be used.

{
  inputs = {
    nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixos-unstable";
    expert.url = "github:elixir-lang/expert";
  };

  outputs = {
    self,
    nixpkgs,
    expert,
  }: let
    systems = [
      "x86_64-linux"
      "aarch64-darwin"
    ];
    forAllSystems = f:
      nixpkgs.lib.genAttrs systems (system:
        f {
          inherit system;
          pkgs = nixpkgs.legacyPackages.${system};
        });
  in {
    devShells = forAllSystems ({
      system,
      pkgs,
    }: {
      default = pkgs.mkShell {
        packages = with pkgs; [
          elixir_1_18
          erlang
          expert.packages.${system}.default
        ];
      };
    });
  };
}

beam-flakes

Not currently supported in beam-flakes.

GitHub Releases

You can easily install Expert with the gh CLI and save it somewhere on your machine.

# Linux AMD64
$ gh release download nightly \
  --pattern *linux_amd64 \
  --output ~/.local/bin/expert \
  --clobber \
  --repo elixir-lang/expert

# Apple Silicon
$ gh release download nightly \
  --pattern *darwin_arm64 \
  --output ~/.local/bin/expert \
  --clobber \
  --repo elixir-lang/expert

$ chmod +x ~/.bin/expert

You can also manually download the executable from the releases page.

Source

Recipes for building from source are located in our justfile.

# Builds an executable for your OS and copies it into `~/.local/bin/`
$ just install