Mise en Place

Feature Overview

Mise en Place is a tool that helps you manage your project’s dependencies, environment variables, and tasks in a consistent manner. It allows you to define these aspects in a single configuration file, making it easier to set up and maintain your development environment.

Package Management

Environment Variables

Task Automation

Installation

I’m only covering installation methods for Linux, macOS, and Homebrew here. For other installation methods, please refer to the official documentation.

Linux / macOS

curl https://mise.run | sh

By default, mise will be installed to ~/.local/bin (this is simply a suggestion. mise can be installed anywhere). You can verify the installation by running:

~/.local/bin/mise --version
#               _                                        __
#    ____ ___  (_)_______        ___  ____        ____  / /___ _________
#   / __ `__ \/ / ___/ _ \______/ _ \/ __ \______/ __ \/ / __ `/ ___/ _ \
#  / / / / / / (__  )  __/_____/  __/ / / /_____/ /_/ / / /_/ / /__/  __/
# /_/ /_/ /_/_/____/\___/      \___/_/ /_/     / .___/_/\__,_/\___/\___/
#                                             /_/                 by @jdx
# 2026.2.1 macos-arm64 (2026-02-02)

~/.local/bin does not need to be in PATH. mise will automatically add its own directory to PATH when activated. mise respects MISE_DATA_DIR and XDG_DATA_HOME if you’d like to change these locations.

Brew

brew install mise

After installation, we need to activate mise in our shell. You can do this by adding the following line to your shell configuration file (e.g., .bashrc, .zshrc, etc.):

mise.run

zsh

echo 'eval "$(~/.local/bin/mise activate zsh)"' >> ~/.zshrc

bash

echo 'eval "$(~/.local/bin/mise activate bash)"' >> ~/.bashrc

Brew

zsh

echo 'eval "$(mise activate zsh)"' >> ~/.zshrc

bash

echo 'eval "$(mise activate bash)"' >> ~/.bashrc

Getting Started

There are at least two places where you can define your mise configuration:

1. For Global settings: ~/.config/mise/config.toml
2. For project-specific settings: mise.toml

Here is an example of a mise.toml file that defines packages, environment variables, and tasks:

[settings]
python.uv_venv_auto = true

[tools]
d2 = "latest"
fnox = "latest"
"pipx:harlequin" = "latest"
pre-commit = "latest"
python = "3.14.0"
sops = "latest"
sqlite = "latest"
terraform = "1.14.3"
terragrunt = "0.97.2"

[env]
_.source = '.env_vars'
_.python.venv = { path = "venv", create = true }
PROXMOX_VE_API_TOKEN = "$(fnox get PM_USER)=$(fnox get PM_PASS)"