Start-Work

Small CLI to easier start and swap between projects in different stacks.

motivation

It's not hard to set up and run most modern software projects.

Usually, we just have to run two something like pip install -r requirements.txt and flask run or something similar. The real problem comes we you have to constantly switch contexts, even worse when working with multiple projects in multiple languages with totally different setups a couple of times a day.

Docker and DockerCompose are great tools to handle this problem. Start Work should not be a replacement for Docker either Docker compose and shall even work with both.

With Start-Work will be easier to switch between projects from any folder and get your development environment up and running only by selecting the project you wanna work on, and when some of these projects for some reason don't allow Docker, Start-Work will also try to identify which tools you are using and run it for you.

Installation

Just run:

pip install startwork

It's done, the installation can be verified with:

work --version

CLI Options

work

Will display a list and let you select one of your saved projects

work create

Will guide you with a couple of questions to save a new project.

work delete

Will display a list and let delete one of your saved projects.

Note: it will not remove the project from your computer, only from the list on Start-Work

work --version

Show current version

work --help

Show currently available CLI options

Next goals

• Handle multiple environments in a single folder

  • Detect multiple environments
  • Let you choose the environment that will be run
  • Let you mark multiple to run at the same time

• Handle multiple folders

  • When not matched by any setup pattern, check inside the first children's folders
  • When multiple children folders match, let you choose one folder
  • Let you mark multiple folders to run at the same time

• Handle multiple folders AND multiple environments at the same call

• Write fully covered end-to-end tests