hotel
Start apps from your browser and get local domains in seconds!
It works everywhere (OS X, Linux, Windows) and with any server (Node, Go, Rails, PHP, ...).
Tip: if you don't enable local domains, hotel can still be used as a catalog of local servers.
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Features
- Local domains -
http://project.dev
- HTTPS via self-signed certificate -
https://project.dev
- Wildcard subdomains -
http://*.project.dev
- Works everywhere - OS X, Linux and Windows
- Works with any server - Node, Ruby, PHP, ...
- Proxy - Map local domains to remote servers
- System-friendly - No messing with
port 80
,/etc/hosts
,sudo
or additional software - Fallback URL -
http://localhost:2000/project
- Servers are only started when you access them
- Plays nice with other servers (Apache, Nginx, ...)
- Random or fixed ports
Install
npm install -g hotel && hotel start
If you don't have Node installed, use brew brew install node
, nvm nvm install stable
or go to nodejs.org.
Quick start
Local dev domains (optional)
To use local .dev
domains, you need to configure your network or browser to use hotel's proxy auto-config file or you can skip this step for the moment and go directly to http://localhost:2000
Servers
Add your servers commands
~/projects/one$ hotel add nodemon
~/projects/two$ hotel add 'serve -p $PORT'
Go to localhost:2000 or hotel.dev.
Alternatively you can directly go to
http://localhost:2000/one
http://localhost:2000/two
http://one.dev
http://two.dev
https://one.dev
https://two.dev
Using other servers? Here are some examples to get you started :)
hotel add 'jekyll --port $PORT'
hotel add 'rails server -p $PORT -b 127.0.0.1'
hotel add 'python -m SimpleHTTPServer $PORT'
hotel add 'php -S 127.0.0.1:$PORT'
# ...
On Windows use "%PORT%"
instead of '$PORT'
Proxy
Add your remote servers
~$ hotel add http://foo.com --name bar
~$ hotel add http://192.168.1.12:1337 --name some-server
You can now access them using
http://bar.dev # http://foo.com
http://some-server.dev # http://192.168.1.12:1337
CLI usage and options
hotel add <cmd|url> [opts]
# Examples:
hotel add 'nodemon app.js' --out dev.log # Set output file (default: none)
hotel add 'nodemon app.js' --name name # Set custom name (default: current dir name)
hotel add 'nodemon app.js' --port 3000 # Set a fixed port (default: random port)
hotel add 'nodemon app.js' --env PATH # Store PATH environment variable in server config
hotel add http://192.168.1.10 --name app # map local domain to URL
# Other commands
hotel ls # List servers
hotel rm # Remove server
hotel start # Start hotel daemon
hotel stop # Stop hotel daemon
To get help
hotel --help
hotel --help <cmd>
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
Fallback URL
If you're offline or can't configure your browser to use .dev
domains, you can always access your local servers by going to localhost:2000.
Configurations and logs
~/.hotel
contains daemon logs, 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)
License
MIT - Typicode