About

If you need to run many processes, keep an eye on them, and don't like having lots of terminal tabs open this might be for you. execmux allows you to run all these processes in the same terminal window and still allow you to interact with them and view their output.

Install

npm install -g execmux

Running

First you need a config file to specify what to run.

my-project.json

{
  "commands": [
    {
      "title": "ls and exit",
      "command": ["ls", "/"]
    },
    {
      "title": "periodic output",
      "command": "./periodic-output.sh"
    },
    {
      "title": "bad process",
      "command": [
        "./missing-command.sh"
      ]
    },
    {
      "cwd": "../",
      "command": "npm run build:watch"
    }
  ]
}

Then run execmux my-project.json

Typing ? will give you options on what you can do while things are running.