Dev Environment Launcher

Dev Environment Launcher is a command-line tool to help manage and open development projects for work environments like Unity and Rust.

Features

• Open Projects: Easily open Unity and Rust projects from specified paths.
• Recent Projects: Keep track of recent projects and select from them interactively.
• Configuration: Customize IDE and editor paths for Unity and Rust.

Roadmap

• Auto-Completion: Add shell auto-completion for commands and options.

• Interactive Prompts Enhancements: Improve the interactive menu to include project metadata and support batch operations.

• Detailed Logs: Add detailed logs for significant operations, including project opening, configuration changes, and errors.

• Verbose Mode: Add a verbose mode to display detailed logs in the console.

• Support More Project/Environment Types: Add support for various project types.

• Modular Architecture: Design the system to allow easy addition of new project types.

• Project Templates: Support multiple configurable environment templates for projects.

Installation

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/bornacvitanic/dev_environment_launcher.git
   

2. Navigate to the project directory:

   cd dev_environment_launcher
   

3. Build the project:

   cargo build --release
   

4. Run the executable:

   ./target/release/dev_environment_launcher
   

Usage

Usage: devenv [SUBCOMMAND]

A tool to open development project workspaces

Subcommands:
    Path <path>        Specify a project path to open
    Open <index>       Specify a recent project index to open
    Remove <index>     Specify a recent project index to remove
    Clear              Clears all recent projects
    Options            List recent projects
    Recent             Interactive menu to select recent project to open

Examples

• Open a project by path:

devenv path /path/to/your/project

• Open a recent project by index:

devenv open 2

• Remove a recent project by index:

devenv remove 1

• Clear all recent projects:

devenv clear

-List recent projects:

devenv options

-Interactive menu to select recent project:

devenv recent

Configuration

Upon first run, the application creates a default configuration file at:

• Windows: %APPDATA%/dev_environment_launcher/config.toml
• macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/dev_environment_launcher/config.toml
• Linux: ~/.config/dev_environment_launcher/config.toml

Configuration File

[rust]
ide_path = "path/to/rust/ide"

[unity]
editor_base_path = "path/to/unity/editor/base (before the version number folder)" 

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please open an issue or submit a pull request.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Acknowledgements

• structopt - Library for setting up a basic command-line interface (CLI)
• structopt-derive - Derive macros for structopt
• dialoguer - Library for handling user input
• toml - Library for handling TOML config files
• config - Library for managing configuration files
• serde - Library for serializing and deserializing Rust data structures
• serde_derive - Derive macros for serde

Contact

• Email: borna.cvitanic@gmail.com
• GitHub Issues: GitHub Issues Page