And then the app is installed in the Application folder. You can install, for instance, the text editor “Atom” with a simple brew cask install atom in a terminal. And if you have Homebrew installed you are already fully set up.
This is as simple as installing a package. But did you also know it can install applications to the applications folder as well? You can do this with brew cask. If you know Homebrew you probably know all this already. When uninstalling a package with brew uninstall your system is back in original state. You can also install multiple versions, like the two NodeJS examples just mentioned and switch between them with brew unlink node and brew link packages will be installed inside the folder usr/local/Cellar and symlinked to the Library to not mess with your default system settings. When, for instance, you need to have NodeJS installed, you can use Homebrew to install it with a simple brew install node inside a terminal to install the latest version or brew install to install it at the latest version 10. More information on this can be found on their website. You can do this with a /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL )” inside a terminal.
The only thing you need to do is to have Homebrew installed. But did you also know you can install applications with it? This article will give a short introduction to using this tool. Homebrew is a handy package manager you can use to install various packages that are not standard for MacOS. You may know the Homebrew “The Missing Package Manager for MacOS (or Linux)”, like it calls itself. Development Installing packages and applications with Homebrew
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