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

or

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

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.