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.

If you set conemu, my_wins will open tabs in that ConEmu instance instead of separate system cmd windows. Project docs are gradually being collected in docs.

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

or

npm i my_wins -g

Usage

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

{
	"conemu": "D:\\ProgsReady\\ConEmu\\ConEmu64.exe",
	"wins": {
		"cmd1": "echo cm1",
		"cmd2": { "cmd": "echo cmd2", "conemu": false },
		"cmd3": { "cmd": "echo cmd3", "conemu": true }
	}
}

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).

Menu mode

Use menu mode to pick multiple commands interactively:

my_wins -m

or

my_wins --menu

Run a single command

Run a single win by name:

my_wins --run cmd1

Version

Print current version:

my_wins --version

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,
        "conemu": "D:\\ProgsReady\\ConEmu\\ConEmu64.exe",
        "x": 0,           
        "y": 0,         
        "height": 120,    
        "width": 500,     
        "wins": {          
            "foo":"my command line 1",
            "baz":{"no_run":true, "cmd":"my command line 2", "conemu":false},
            "qux":{"cmd":"my command line 3", "conemu":true},
            "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

conemu string - optional full path to ConEmu.exe or ConEmu64.exe. When present, console commands use ConEmu by default and are sent through ConEmu GuiMacro instead of the window key sender. ConEmu tabs keep their visible title from the win title field even if commands later change the internal console title.

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
• conemu boolean - optional per-win override. true forces this win into ConEmu, false forces it into a normal system cmd window.
• 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

Changelog

1.0.13

• Fixed webstorm example in readme

1.0.12

• Fixed JSON5 parsing errors was silently ignored.

1.0.11

• Added "app" flag to run applications instead of console windows.