What’s new in localhost

The first release, for macOS, Linux and Windows

The first version of localhost: a native SwiftUI app for macOS, and one app for Linux and Windows, all on one Rust core.

• Projects and Services: one command line, working directory and environment per Service, run in your login shell (cmd.exe on Windows). Start, stop and restart one Service, or Start All / Stop All in dependency order.
• Ports: a Service is Running once its Port accepts connections. A taken port says who holds it, and a Service can move to the next free one for a Run. The Ports view lists every Listener on the machine.
• Environment: Project and Service variables, Environment Profiles and Secrets in the system’s secret store. “Restart to apply” when a running Service’s configuration changes.
• Logs: each Service’s output with colours, the merged All services view, filter and clear, smooth with very chatty Services.
• Stats: a running Service’s CPU and memory, sampled only while its popover is open.
• Suggestions: Add Project scans the folder for Node scripts, Compose services, Python apps and Cargo binaries, for you to review.
• Project files: export a Project to YAML and import it again.
• Keyboard and accessibility: the command palette on ⌘K and Ctrl+K, a shortcut for every action, a Keyboard Shortcuts sheet on ⌘/ and Ctrl+/, screen readers, Reduce Motion and Reduce Transparency.
• The menu bar companion and the tray, and Orphans offered to stop after a crash.
• Linux: packaged as .deb, .rpm and AppImage.
• Windows: a per-user installer. Services run with your user environment read fresh at each start, inside a Job Object, and stop with Ctrl-Break.
• WSL: a Project can run inside a WSL distro, through a small localhostd the app copies into it. Commands, detection and the Ports view run in the distro.
• The localhost command, on the same core and data: projects, status, logs and up.