hotel

Hotel is a simple process manager created for web developers.

1. Tell hotel how to start your server
2. Go to localhost:2000
3. Congrats 👍

Works on OS X, Linux and Windows with any server.

Why?

Are you doing a lot of web development? With hotel, you don't have to leave your browser to start your dev server. You also don't have to manage terminal tabs, remember commands, worry about ports, ...

Just fire up your text-editor, a browser and you're done.

Install

npm install -g hotel && hotel start

Quick start

Add your servers commands (need to be done only once).

~/projects/one$ hotel add nodemon
~/projects/two$ hotel add 'serve -p $PORT'

Now, you can access, start and stop your servers from localhost:2000.

As a shortcut, you can also directly go to:

http://localhost:2000/one
http://localhost:2000/two

Other servers examples (on Windows use "" and %PORT%):

hotel add 'jekyll --port $PORT'
hotel add 'rails server --port $PORT'
hotel add 'python -m SimpleHTTPServer $PORT'
hotel add 'php -S 127.0.0.1:$PORT'
# ...

Usage

To add a server

hotel add <cmd> [opts]

# Examples:
hotel add 'nodemon app.js' -o out.log # Set output file (default: none)
hotel add 'nodemon app.js' -n name    # Set custom name (default: current dir name)
hotel add 'nodemon app.js' -p 3000    # Set a fixed port (default: random port)
hotel add 'nodemon app.js' -e ENV     # Save environment variable

To list, start and stop servers go to

http://localhost:2000

To start and access directly your server go to

http://localhost:2000/<app-name>

🔥 PRO-TIP: Install Hotel Clerk to manage your Hotel from your menubar.

Other commands

hotel ls        # List servers
hotel rm [name] # Remove server
hotel start     # Start daemon
hotel stop      # Stop daemon

Port

For hotel to work, your servers need to listen on the PORT environment variable. Here are some examples showing how you can do it from your code or the command-line:

var port = process.env.PORT || 3000
server.listen(port)

hotel add 'cmd -p $PORT'  # OS X, Linux
hotel add "cmd -p %PORT%" # Windows

Files

~/.hotel contains daemon log, servers and daemon configurations.

~/.hotel/conf.json
~/.hotel/daemon.log
~/.hotel/servers/<app-name>.json

License

MIT - Typicode