pm.js - your Project Manager!

This is basically a 3kb drop-in replacement for the "&" syntax in bash.

It launches multiple commands in background and merges their standard output.

Example output

Additional features

• Reliable Ctrl+C : it kills all the launched processes
• Visual separators between outputs
• Binary pm reads pm.json from a working directory
• pm -p name launches only process "name"
• pm -g groupname launches only processes from group groupname
• pm -c name only shows the command

TODO

• Simple keyboard shortcuts to restart one of the processes
• I have troubles launching livereload this way - don't know why
• Sometimes the sub-processes don't print out full error messages
• Throttle (group) output lines by some time interval (300ms)
• Add "color" option to processes
• Move from pm.JSON to .JS (module)

Example process definition file

{
    "processes" : [

    {"name": "clj-tdd", "group":"clj",      "exec": "lein",   "args": "with-profile bleeding midje :autotest", "cwd":"editor"},
    {"name": "cljs-build", "group":"clj",   "exec": "lein",   "args": "cljsbuild auto dev", "cwd":"editor"},
    {"name": "cljx","group":"clj",          "exec": "lein",   "args": "cljx auto", "cwd": "editor"},
    {"disabled": true, "name": "livereload","exec": "grunt",  "args": "watch --gruntfile Gruntfile-LiveReload.js", "cwd" : "client"},
    {"name": "devserver", "group":"web",    "exec": "node",   "args": "app.js", "cwd":"devserver"},
    {"name": "grunt",         				"exec": "grunt",  "args": "watch", "cwd" : "client"},
    {"name": "api-server",    				"exec": "npm",    "args": "start", "cwd" : "server"}

    ]
}

Usage

1. Ooops, there is no npm install... shit!
2. Checkout & symlink pm.js to a directory in PATH so it is accessible as an exectuable from anywhere
3. Create pm.json file and run pm in that directory