nift mit Homebrew installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Repository

Befehle und Aliase

• nift
• nsm

Projektgeschichte

The Nift GitHub README credits Nicholas Ham and dates the project copyright from 2015 onward. The official site says it is open source under the MIT license and developed from the ground up in C++.

Nift's identity is unusual for the static-site-generator space: the Jamstack generator directory describes it as git-like and LaTeX-like, with the intent of creating a command-line site manager. The official site also emphasizes embedded Lua/LuaJIT and ExprTk, Git integration, incremental builds, a single executable, and multithreading.

Adoptionsgeschichte

Adoption is niche. GitHub showed 249 stars, 22 forks, and 60 releases when researched on July 1, 2026, with the latest GitHub release shown as Nift v3.0.3 on January 13, 2024. The Jamstack generator page listed 243 stars and 21 forks, consistent with small-project scale.

Homebrew's formula API reported 47 installs over 365 days, six over 90 days, and four over 30 days when queried on July 1, 2026. That makes the Homebrew package a convenience for curious users and existing Nift projects, not a broad ecosystem anchor.

Wie es verwendet wird

Users run nift or nsm commands to initialize and manage a site, track pages, build changed output, build all output, serve locally, clone/pull, and combine build/commit/push flows. The official basic usage tutorial walks through .nsm tracking metadata, content and template files, output generation, and incremental rebuilds.

Package nerds may notice that Nift exposes both nift and nsm names, ships as a single executable, embeds scripting/expression engines, and tries to cover site management workflow as well as generation. It competes more on personal workflow taste than on a large plugin/theme ecosystem.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Nift is significant mostly as a small, opinionated-by-implementation counterexample in the static site generator catalog: C++/C codebase, single binary, git-like commands, LaTeX-like templating ambitions, and a very small Homebrew footprint.

Zeitleiste

• 2015: Nift copyright begins, according to the GitHub README and official site footer.
• January 13, 2024: GitHub showed Nift v3.0.3 as the latest release when researched on July 1, 2026.
• July 1, 2026: Homebrew formula API reported 47 installs over 365 days.

Related projects

• LuaJIT, Lua, ExprTk, Git, Netlify, GitHub Pages, GitLab Pages, Bitbucket

Quellen

• https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula/nift.json
• https://github.com/nifty-site-manager/nsm
• https://jamstack.org/generators/nift/
• https://nift.dev/
• https://nift.dev/docs/commands.html
• https://nift.dev/resources/tutorials/basic_usage.html