bolt: The Universal Project Runner

Run Docker containers, child processes, or even encapsulate your entire project within a VM, all under one unified API.

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❓ What is bolt?

bolt is the Universal Project Runner that runs Docker containers, child processes, or even encapsulate your entire project within a VM, all under one unified API.

Below's brief overview of bolt's architecture -

🤔 Why bolt?

Running projects locally requires running system services and using system resources.

For eg: A project may need to run a Postgres instance, an iOS simulator and a Node watcher & bundler.

It can get cumbersome when you set up everything manually because you may need a Docker instance for the Postgres, a child process on the host machine to boot the iOS simulator and another child process for the Node packager. The Node packager can also run as a Docker instance.

And when you run all these, the host machine may slow down and you may have to move things inside a VM. Bolt solves all those problems with a unified API for managing services (boot, kill, restart, fetch logs).

Below's brief overview of how bolt's architecture designed to help in such scenarios -

🔥 Features

• Allows you to run multiple services from a single project on different environments
• You can run a service on your host machine locally or within Bolt's prepared virtual machine
• Auto-detection helps you quickly get started with the Bolt file configuration
• Available environments include:
  • Host machine's local environment
  • Host machine's Docker environment
  • Virtual machine's local environment
  • Virtual machine's Docker environment
• Includes the log command to monitor and print logs from processes, Docker containers, or virtual machines
• Facilitates access to your project's virtual machine

🔰 Getting started

• Introduction
• Terminologies
• Installation Guide
• Your First Bolt Project
• Add Bolt to Existing Project
• ENV Management
• Service Management

Checkout our documentation to find out more and to go through our Tutorials & API References.

🙈 Caveat

We are currently very much an Alpha product. To file an issue if you face any problems or to discuss your use-case, please join our Discord.

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