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my_wins

Automates starting your console windows for tsc, babel, tests, verdaccio, etc...

my_wins opens cmd promts for you, position them nicely and types-in your commands into them.

Why?

Why this is better than just running cmd/bat files?

Because you can

Ctrl+C - to stop your command
UP -> Enter - to restart your command
But still you don't need to type in the command for the very first time
And you don't have to open those consoles manually
And you don't have to position them ether

Installation

npm i my_wins

npm i my_wins -g

Usage

Create "my_wins.json" in your project with contents:

{
	"wins": {
		"cmd1": "echo cm1",
		"cmd2": "echo cmd2"
	}
}

and run

npm run my_wins

This will

Open command line windows for each command
Set titles of this windows
Position windows on your screen
Execute commands in them

Now if you need to restart or pause/resume any of your cmd just do

Ctrl+C - to stop
UP -> Enter - to restart

my_wins was tested only on Windows 10 and may have issues on other OSes

my_wins uses json5 to parse it's settings, so you can leave trailing commas or remove quotes around json-keys (see json5 package for details).

All options

You can also create "my_wins_personal.json" which can partially or fully overrides my_wins.

It's recommended to gitignore "my_wins_personal.json".

    {
        "startTimeout": 700,
        "x": 0,           
        "y": 0,         
        "height": 120,    
        "width": 500,     
        "wins": {          
            "foo":"my command line 1",
            "baz":{"no_run":true, "cmd":"my command line 2"},
            "webstorm": {"app":true, "cmd":"\"C:\\Program Files\\JetBrains\\WebStorm 2019.2\\bin\\webstorm64.exe\""} // notice escaped quotes !
            // "commented": "Comments and trailing commas are supported!",
        },
    }

x,y,height,width number - is first cmd window's position and size

y gets incremented by height for each next window

wins object- your windows

if you enter a string it resolves to {"cmd":"string"}
cmd string - your command
no_run boolean - types in the command, but won't hit "Enter".
app boolean - runs yours command as Windows application, not as console. (Incompartible with "no_run").

Author - Yuri Yaryshev, 2020

Unlicensed