JetBrains CLI

A robust CLI tool for installing, updating, and configuring JetBrains IDEs from the command line. Built with Rust for high performance, it features concurrent downloads, progress tracking, and background updates with system notifications.

JB CLI is a Rust command-line tool for installing, updating, and configuring JetBrains IDEs on Linux, written to replace the official Toolbox app on my own machines.

Features

• install, uninstall, and list JetBrains IDEs from the terminal

• link/unlink installed IDEs on the PATH and generate .desktop entries

• auto mode checks for updates in the background and raises desktop notifications

• Self-update the CLI, and inspect the environment with info and meta (JSON output)

• Configure the tools, icons, and binary directories with flags or the JB_TOOLS_DIR, JB_ICONS_DIR, and JB_BINARIES_DIR environment variables

Implementation

• Concurrent streaming downloads with progress bars and human-readable sizes

• SHA-256 checksum verification of each archive before extraction with flate2 and tar

• Async runtime on Tokio, thread-safe channels via Flume, and concurrent shared state via DashMap

• HTTP through Reqwest over rustls, argument parsing with clap, notifications via notify-rust