hotel

Start apps from your browser and get local domains in seconds!

Tip: if you don't enable local domains, hotel can still be used as a catalog of local servers.

Hotel works great on any OS (OS X, Linux, Windows) and with all servers ❤️

• Node (Express, Webpack)
• PHP (Laravel, Symfony)
• Ruby (Rails, Sinatra, Jekyll)
• Python (Django)
• Docker
• Go
• Apache, Nginx
• ...

Video

• Starting apps with Hotel - Spacedojo Code Kata by Josh Owens

Features

• Local domains - http://project.dev
• HTTPS via self-signed certificate - https://project.dev
• Wildcard subdomains - http://*.project.dev
• Works everywhere - OS X, Linux and Windows
• Works with any server - Node, Ruby, PHP, ...
• Proxy - Map local domains to remote servers
• System-friendly - No messing with port 80, /etc/hosts, sudo or additional software
• Fallback URL - http://localhost:2000/project
• Servers are only started when you access them
• Plays nice with other servers (Apache, Nginx, ...)
• Random or fixed ports

Install

npm install -g hotel && hotel start

If you don't have Node installed, use brew brew install node, nvm nvm install stable or go to nodejs.org.

Quick start

Local dev domains (optional)

To use local .dev domains, you need to configure your network or browser to use hotel's proxy auto-config file or you can skip this step for the moment and go directly to http://localhost:2000

See instructions here.

Servers

Add your servers commands

~/projects/one$ hotel add nodemon
~/projects/two$ hotel add 'serve -p $PORT'

Go to localhost:2000 or hotel.dev.

Alternatively you can directly go to

http://localhost:2000/one
http://localhost:2000/two

http://one.dev
http://two.dev

https://one.dev
https://two.dev

Popular servers examples

Using other servers? Here are some examples to get you started :)

hotel add 'jekyll serve --port $PORT'
hotel add 'rails server -p $PORT -b 127.0.0.1'
hotel add 'python -m SimpleHTTPServer $PORT'
hotel add 'php -S 127.0.0.1:$PORT'
# ...

On Windows use "%PORT%" instead of '$PORT'

Proxy

Add your remote servers

~$ hotel add http://foo.com --name bar
~$ hotel add http://192.168.1.12:1337 --name some-server

You can now access them using

http://bar.dev # http://foo.com
http://some-server.dev # http://192.168.1.12:1337

CLI usage and options

hotel add <cmd|url> [opts]

# Examples:
hotel add 'nodemon app.js' --out dev.log  # Set output file (default: none)
hotel add 'nodemon app.js' --name name    # Set custom name (default: current dir name)
hotel add 'nodemon app.js' --port 3000    # Set a fixed port (default: random port)
hotel add 'nodemon app.js' --env PATH     # Store PATH environment variable in server config
hotel add http://192.168.1.10 --name app  # map local domain to URL

# Other commands
hotel ls     # List servers
hotel rm     # Remove server
hotel start  # Start hotel daemon
hotel stop   # Stop hotel daemon

To get help

hotel --help
hotel --help <cmd>

Port

For hotel to work, your servers need to listen on the PORT environment variable. Here are some examples showing how you can do it from your code or the command-line:

var port = process.env.PORT || 3000
server.listen(port)

hotel add 'cmd -p $PORT'  # OS X, Linux
hotel add "cmd -p %PORT%" # Windows

Fallback URL

If you're offline or can't configure your browser to use .dev domains, you can always access your local servers by going to localhost:2000.

Configurations and logs

~/.hotel contains daemon logs, servers and daemon configurations.

~/.hotel/conf.json
~/.hotel/daemon.log
~/.hotel/daemon.pid
~/.hotel/servers/<app-name>.json

Third-party tools

• Hotel Clerk OS X menubar
• HotelX Another OS X menubar (only 1.6MB)

License

MIT - Typicode