websysd

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websysd

Like Marathon or Upstart, for your desktop!

Getting started

• Optionally set a global environment - see websysd.json for an example
• Create a JSON workspace file - see workspace.json for an example
• Start websysd
• Open http://localhost:7050

If you didn't name your config files websysd.json and workspace.json:

websysd -global websysd.local.json -workspace myworkspace.json

And if you want to load multiple workspaces:

websysd -workspace myworkspace.json -workspace someproject.json

Why

Too many console windows.

Useful info

• Active tasks will be killed if websysd dies or is stopped
• Use the /bin/sh -c executor on Linux
• Use custom columns and functions to add UI metadata, e.g. display git branch name
  • see examples in websysd.json and workspace.json

Environment

Default websysd behaviour is to ignore all preset environment variables.

This means you will need to set any variables you want explicitly (including $PATH, which you might want to set to /bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin).

You can change this behaviour by setting InheritEnvironment in either the global configuration or a workspace configuration file:

{
	"InheritEnvironment": true
}

If InheritEnvironment is true in the global workspace, the setting is ignored by individual workspaces and the full environment will be inherited anyway.

STDOUT/STDERR logs

Output from tasks is stored in-memory by default.

You can set Stdout and Stderr to a filename per-task to override this behaviour.

Filenames can include environment variables, and $TASK and $RUN are set by websysd.

{
	"Stdout": "/tmp/$TASK-$RUN.out"
}

Screenshots

Licence

Copyright ©‎ 2014, Ian Kent (http://www.iankent.eu).

Released under MIT license, see LICENSE for details.