Utilbin is a collection of utilities to improve developer's lives.

The goal of utilbin is threefold:

1. Be a central, welcoming community where everyone can collate and improve development tools together, all under a liberal license.

2. Provide programmatic access to hosted utilities over a simple REST interface.

3. Build in-browser (e.g. Javascript and/or WebAssembly) versions of every utility for local use, like with sensitive data that can't leave corporate firewalls.

To run Utilbin locally, first checkout Utilbin.

git clone https://github.com/gruns/utilbin.git

Next, install Utilbin's Python dependencies

pip install furl curio flask

Finally, install Utilbin's build dependencies: a C/C++ compiler toolchain, Emscripten (a toolchain that compiles C and C++ to Javascript), and browserify (a Javascript bundler).

On Debian machines, install the C/C++ compiler toolchain with

apt install build-essential

To install Emscripten, follow Emscripten's installation instructions here:

• https://kripken.github.io/emscripten-site/docs/getting_started/downloads.html

Installation of Emscripten on Linux and OS X will look similar to

$ wget https://s3.amazonaws.com/mozilla-games/emscripten/releases/emsdk-portable.tar.gz
$ tar xf emsdk-portable.tar.gz
$ cd emsdk-portable/
$ ./emsdk update
$ ./emsdk install latest
$ ./emsdk activate latest
$ ln -s "$(find $(pwd) -type f -name 'emcc')" /somewhere/in/your/path/emcc

Install browserify with

npm install -g browserify

With Utilbin checked out and the build dependencies installed, it's time to build some utilities. Individual utilities can be built with

./utilbind build <utility> [web | native]

To build every utility, for both web and native, run

./utilbind build all

Individual utilities can be run via utilbind's Command Line Interface (CLI) with

./utilbind run <utility> <utility-args>

For example, to generate a random password, run

$ ./utilbind run password_generator --length=20
ratipatawojorokepafu

In addition to providing a CLI to build and run utilities, utilbind is also an HTTP daemon that can listen for, and serve, RESTrequests. To start the REST server in listen mode (non-daemonizedd server mode), run

./utilbind
Listening for requests on http://127.0.0.1:4337/...
...

And request away

$ curl "http://localhost:4337/password_generator?length=20"
nawibolaxoqoriyatade

Once web versions of the utilities have been built (e.g. with ./utilbind build all web), start the frontend web server with

$ ./www.py
 * Running on http://127.0.0.1:5050/ (Press CTRL+C to quit)
 * Restarting with stat
 ...

and load http://127.0.0.1:5050/ in your browser.

To add a new utility to Utilbin, follow the Add Utility instructions and submit a pull request.