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@dagisolo10 dagisolo10 released this 14 Oct 13:47
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v1.1.0
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This release adds a development server manager to Orbit. Save the long-running commands you use every day — dev servers, watchers, backends — and start, stop, and restart them from a new Servers view, with their output streamed into a built-in terminal. As always, everything runs locally with no accounts, no cloud, and no telemetry.

Highlights

  • A built-in development server manager with Start, Stop, and Restart
  • Live stdout, stderr, and system output streamed into a built-in terminal
  • Automatic localhost URL detection, openable in your browser with one click
  • Whole process-tree cleanup on stop, so child processes are terminated too
  • Server configurations persisted and restored across restarts (never auto-started)
  • A searchable project picker when adding or editing a server
  • A collapsible sidebar whose state is remembered
  • Tooltips that no longer clip inside scrollable regions

Added

  • A Servers view for registering development commands and controlling them from Orbit.
  • Start, Stop, and Restart with live status (starting, running, stopping, stopped, failed), process id, and exit code or signal.
  • A built-in terminal that streams each server's stdout, stderr, and system messages, with a Clear action and a bounded per-server buffer.
  • Automatic detection of localhost URLs in server output, which can be opened in the browser directly from the server card.
  • Process-tree cleanup on stop so a dev server's child processes are cleaned up too.
  • Configurations persisted in servers.json under the app's user-data directory and restored on launch; servers stay stopped until you start them.
  • A searchable project picker in the add/edit form, with a manual folder-browse fallback and an auto-filled display name.
  • Per-server actions to open in editor, copy path, edit, and remove.
  • A collapsible sidebar that persists its state across launches.
  • Tooltips now render in a portal and position themselves relative to the viewport, so they are no longer clipped by scrollable containers.

Downloads (Linux)

Pick the file for your distribution from the Assets list at the bottom of this release:

Format Recommended for File
AppImage Most users — portable, no install Orbit-1.1.0.AppImage
Debian / Ubuntu deb-based distros Orbit-1.1.0.deb
Arch Linux pacman-based distros Orbit-1.1.0.pacman

Downloaded files go to your downloads folder (usually ~/Downloads), so open a terminal there first. If you saved the file somewhere else, use its full path instead.

cd ~/Downloads

AppImage (portable, no installation)

After Orbit-1.1.0.AppImage is in ~/Downloads:

cd ~/Downloads
chmod +x Orbit-1.1.0.AppImage
./Orbit-1.1.0.AppImage

Orbit launches immediately — nothing is installed and you can delete the file when finished. Some systems need FUSE; if the AppImage refuses to start, either install the FUSE 2 libraries for your distro or run it with ./Orbit-1.1.0.AppImage --appimage-extract-and-run.

Debian / Ubuntu

After Orbit-1.1.0.deb is in ~/Downloads:

cd ~/Downloads
sudo apt install ./Orbit-1.1.0.deb

Using apt (rather than dpkg) pulls in the required dependencies automatically. Once installed, launch Orbit from your applications menu or run orbit.

Arch Linux

After Orbit-1.1.0.pacman is in ~/Downloads:

cd ~/Downloads
sudo pacman -U Orbit-1.1.0.pacman

Then launch Orbit from your applications menu or run orbit.

Checksums (SHA-256)

8b2128aca11f10e19ab8c70ed24cac4f61039b61363ddf077460385787e622e4  Orbit-1.1.0.AppImage
66e3d061faf90e9b3dc9bee67db486e687f9468cea0a9b490d98da63554ac131  Orbit-1.1.0.deb
90d790418e40121d6e6fa9140398d7ed05503bb392abaf36cba54b02ce37e76b  Orbit-1.1.0.pacman

Notes

  • Linux only for now. The repository includes macOS and Windows packaging targets, but only Linux packages are published.
  • Only JavaScript and TypeScript projects (a package.json) are detected. See the documentation for supported projects and limitations.

Full documentation: https://orbit.dagidev.com

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