thewebsitenursery / hotel

local .dev domains for everyone and more!

hotel

No need to worry about ports, remember commands, manage terminal tabs, mess with /etc/hosts ... access and start your servers from the browser. You can even use local .dev domains or any other tld, and it works everywhere (OS X, Linux, Windows) 👍

Features

• Shortcut access (http://localhost:2000/project)
• Local domain support (http://project.dev *)
• SSL support via self-signed certificate (https://project.dev *)
• Servers are only started when you access them
• Works with any server (Node, Ruby, PHP, ...)
• Cross-platform (OS X, Linux and Windows)
• Plays nice with other servers (Apache, Nginx, ...)
• No port 80, /etc/hosts or admin/root privileges needed
• Random or fixed ports
• See Roadmap for upcoming features :)

* Local .dev domains are optional. To use them, configure your network or browser to use hotel's proxy auto-config file (proxy.pac). See instructions here.

Install

npm install -g hotel && hotel start

If you don't have Node installed, use brew or nvm.

Quick start

Add your servers commands.

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

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

And you get access to the following URLs:

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

http://one.dev
http://two.dev

https://one.dev
https://two.dev

Here are some other servers examples:

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'
# ...

On Windows use "%PORT%" instead of '$PORT'

CLI usage and options

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 PATH    # Store PATH environment variable in server config

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

Dev domain support

See instructions here.

Configurations and logs

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

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

Third-party tools

• Hotel Clerk OS X menubar
• HotelX Another OS X menubar (only 1.6MB)

Roadmap

• In-browser logs
• Sub-domains support

License

MIT - Typicode