@rtablada wrote:
Hey there, wanted to share something new that I’m starting as a spiritual successor to Ember Hearth and inspired by the recent release of Vue GUI.
As a heads up I’m currently in the outlining phases of the project and feature gathering but wanted to share my thoughts and plans early so I can get community help or steer the project in the right direction. Ok, on to the pitch:
LocalDev is a daemon or full Electron app that allows you to manage development projects of all types. In this way it works more like hotel or Laravel Valet. The idea is that from the GUI a user can:
- Create new applications
- See their projects
- Launch their app via a
.localhostTLD domain for easy development without port numbers or port colision- View logs
- Manage Tasks
- More
While I like the idea of the Hearth development as an Ember development GUI, I think that a flexible tool could see more widespread adoption (both in the Ember community and outside of the Ember community). So to me this means that similar to Laravel’s Valet, LocalDev could have plugins that attach to certain projects. This means that an Ember project could have integration (similar to Vue GUI) like:
- Searching for Ember Addons from EmberObserver
- Running Ember CLI Commands
- UI for Ember Generators
- Working with Ember CLI Deploy
- More
Through a plugin architecture we could also support more generic JS projects with features like:
- Running NPM Tasks
- Searching the NPM registry
- Running NPM security audits
Since every Ember project is also a Node/JavaScript project, this could be auto detected and users can have the features from both plugins for their project.
Here’s some screenshots of the rough idea/layout (I’m not a designer):
And here’s the expanded view of the sidebar
That’s a high level view of what I’m starting to think and now I’m opening up for questions/help/interest.
I had talked to @NullVoxPopuli about possibly moving forward on something like this.
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