NavBoat

A quick service control widget for mac os navbar.
Transform your cli services into a YAML config file and run them in 2 clicks!

Features

• Supports background services
• Shows open ports for running services, click on a host opens a browser tab
• Can show status and physical memory, of a process, including its spawned subprocesses.
• Supports virtual environments
• Supports environment variables
• Supports service auto-run
• Supports nested categories
• Fully shuts down all processes on exit
• Supports additional actions (like updating or building)

Setup

pip install rumps psutil PyYAML
python src/app.py

Project status

Proof-of-concept, needs refactoring. Config syntax may change. Errors in third-party services are not reported. Framework limitations allow to update the widget only when it is not open. It is partially updated every 5 seconds with a full refresh every minute.

Syntax

# required
    - name: action name
      type: subprocess # only subprocess is supported right now
      background: bool # is this a service or a single-run script
      dir: /path/to/working/directory/of/the/service # where is the target dir located
      command: ./server # what to run
      arguments: -ngl 1 # cli arguments
# optional
      env: # a list of enviromnet variables, add _clean to clear existing env.variables
      venv: # path to python venv activation file.
      wait_for: word # change service status to running only when a word is found in stdout (or on timeout). Stderr and sub-process stdout is not supported.
      shell: bool # use this to run cli commands if regular mode does not work, in this case all commands should be passed in "command" and "arguments" should be empty (TODO: fix).
      window: bool # open terminal window.
      autorun: bool # run the service when this app is started.
      subactions: # a list of extra actions to run
        - name: Update # subaction name
          when: stopped # when to show the action (update & rebuild only whe the service is running, make api calls when it is running)
          window: true # open terminal window
          command: | # list of commands to run, will be concatinated with `&&`
            git pull
            make clean
            env -i make
            exit

Improvement ideas

• cron-like services
• profiles for various arguments
• auto-file-dir argument, selecting a file from directory and passing it as an argument (useful for LLM files)
• sub-action status

Special thanks

This project is heavily based on RUMPS widget framework.

License

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0