Monoplane

Monoplane is a tiny tool designed to help you run multiple processes in your local development environment. It is like a very stripped down docker compose for local shell commands. Especially useful for monorepos. Obviously, not for production.

Using Monoplane

pip install monoplane

Create a monoplane.yml file in your project root:

color_stderr: "[91m"

services:
    - name: api
      cwd: resources/api
      command: skaffold dev
      build: npm run generate
      color: "[0;33m"
      notes: http://localhost:30005
      env:
          - name: PORT
            value: 30005

    - name: console
      cwd: resources/web_console
      command: npm run dev
      build: npm run build
      color: "[0;36m"
      notes: http://localhost:30001

Then run monoplane or mp in your project root. It will start all services in parallel.

Some useful commands (just press key while running):

• r - restart all services
• s - print status of all services
• b - execute all build commands
• c - clear screen

Notes added in the config file will be printed when you press s. Useful for adding links to your service endpoints to avoid remembering ports and typing them over and over again.