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by brandonbloom 1787 days ago
Hi there, I'm the tech lead for this project.

In the course of working on another project, the team and I were comparing notes with friends our various multi-process dev environment setups. Everything from a bunch of terminal tabs open, to typical Procfile runners, to advanced tmux usage, to systemd, and supervisord, and more.

There are a handful of process supervisors specifically targeting dev out there, but none that met our requirements.

Exo is our first step towards building a robust solution to this problem. Once we started hacking, the ideas started flowing, but we had to draw a cutline somewhere, so this MVP is just a Foreman-style Procfile runner. Next-up is Docker Compose compatibility, but there is so much more beyond that planned too.

If you give it a try and have thoughts, please file an issue or open a discussion at https://github.com/deref/exo - or email me at brandon@deref.io

If you like it, please give us a star :)

Cheers, Brandon