Show HN: Pitara – back up your dev environment to your own GitHub repo

Category: cli-tool

Tags: cli-tool, dev-environment, backup

Score: 6.8/10 (Innovation: 5, Technical: 7, Documentation: 8, Utility: 7)

Pitara is a CLI tool that backs up a developer's language runtimes and global CLI packages to a private GitHub repo, enabling quick environment restoration on a new laptop. It uses a plugin architecture to capture and reinstall tools like Node, Go, Java, and Bun along with their package managers, with no server or database storing user data. The project is interesting for solving the common pain point of rebuilding a development environment with a simple, secure, and open-source approach.

Target audience: backend devs, devops

Repository: https://github.com/sailingsam/pitara · Go · MIT · 2 stars

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