Scaling Mise to large organizations with too many tasks

[stevelandeyasana]

I work at an organization with its own custom task runner that is the canonical entry point to all our internal tools. Mise can do most things our custom task runner can do, but there are UX problems that would prevent it from scaling.

Today, mise task ls gives you a nice 3-column table with Name, Description, and Source. For example...

Name          Description       Source
build:mac     Build for Mac     mise.toml
build:windows Build for WIndows mise.toml

Now suppose there are 500 tasks, with some nested 3 groups deep, and you joined the company last week so you don't know exactly what something is called.

One way of addressing this would be to add a new command such as mise task search which would let you interactively fuzzy-find a task. Does that seem like a reasonable addition to this project, or is Mise not a good fit for this use case?

I'd also love for some way to type a prefix and have Mise show me all the tasks with that prefix. Maybe it can already do this and I missed it.

[syhol]

mise run

You can filter it and there is some discussion about adding fuzzy finding.

Also if you have mise shell completions setup, you should be able to use your shells completion system, I use fzf shell integration for fuzzy finding in completions:

[stevelandeyasana]

It looks like a bare mise run doesn't show descriptions, which is unfortunate. And I'd rather not try to make custom shell completion scale to an entire eng org if I can help it. :-)

[syhol]

And I'd rather not try to make custom shell completion scale to an entire eng org if I can help it

I don't blame you.

You could always extend mise with your own mise search:

[tools]
jq = "latest"
fzf = "latest"

[tasks.search]
run = "exec mise run $(mise tasks ls --json | jq '.[] | .name + \" --- \" + .description' --raw-output | fzf | cut -d' ' -f1)"

[tasks.start]
run = "echo starting..."
description = "start all the services"

# ...

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[jdx]

haha I actually noticed this just before y'all started talking about it jdx/demand#65

[stevelandeyasana]

Here's what I came up with to serve my needs:

[tasks.search]
run = """
#!/usr/bin/env zsh
set -e
TASK=$(exec mise tasks ls --json | jq '.[] | .name + " - " + .description' --raw-output | fzf --preview='mise task info {+1}' | cut -d' ' -f1 | tr -d '[:space:]')
if [[ $TASK ]]; then
    echo "mise run $TASK"
    exec mise run $TASK
else
    echo "Aborted"
fi
"""

Improvements over @syhol's solution:

• Doesn't do anything if you exit without making a selection
• Shows the full task info as preview
• Echoes the command before running it

I wish the description printed on the line could be in a dimmer color, which is where Mise itself could have a better implementation.