DevsPro
A local development environment manager for Linux and Windows, in one window.
Tauri + React + Rust.
What it does
| Module | |
|---|
| Dashboard | Live CPU, memory, GPU, storage and network, with a health summary |
| Web Server & SSL | Add sites (proxy-to-port or Laravel), served by nginx or Apache — both detected (from the running process when there is one, so XAMPP, WAMP and Laragon installs are found wherever they live), installable where a package manager exists, and switchable in one step — each with a locally-trusted HTTPS certificate from a CA it manages for you. Optional public Cloudflare tunnel per site. A New Project wizard scaffolds Laravel, adds the site, creates a database, writes .env and runs migrations in one go, reporting each step |
| Docker | Containers: start, stop, restart, logs, and remap published ports |
| Databases | MySQL / PostgreSQL / MongoDB / Redis in DevsPro's own compose project, each with an admin UI, plus users, backup and restore |
| Cleaner | See how much space you can free, grouped by risk, with a "Clean suggested" shortcut and a history of past cleans. Covers package caches and stores (npm, pnpm, composer, cargo, gradle and others), each cleaned with the tool's own command; Docker leftovers, item by item, with DevsPro's own database volumes protected; large files and the biggest folders; node_modules, target and .next in idle projects; and the apt cache, journal and old snaps through the helper. A WinDirStat-style Storage map shows where the space went. Scans change nothing, and every clean goes through a review list |
| Data browser | A TablePlus-style browser for any MySQL/Postgres server — table and view sidebar, structure (columns, indexes, foreign keys), a filterable grid with inline row editing, relation columns you can click through, a multi-sheet SQL console with completion and history, and CSV/JSON/INSERT export. Read-only per connection until you switch it to read & write; opens databases DevsPro doesn't run too — remote servers, ones installed on this machine, and other containers'. PostgreSQL databases load one schema at a time, with a schema picker |
| Mail Catcher | Mailpit, built in or in Docker, so outgoing mail from local apps lands somewhere you can read it |
| LLM Traces (beta) | A local Langfuse and LangSmith: point an LLM app's Langfuse, LangSmith or OpenTelemetry SDK at DevsPro (one environment variable) and read every trace here, as a waterfall of LLM calls, tools and steps with their prompts, responses, tokens, timings, errors and scores, without an account or anything leaving the machine. See docs/LLM_TRACES.md |
| Workers | Any shell command kept running in the background — a Laravel queue worker, say |
| Scheduled tasks | Recurring commands (php artisan schedule:run every minute, say) written to your crontab inside a block DevsPro manages, with each run's output |
| Redis | Browse keys by pattern with typed values, and watch Laravel queues (pending / delayed / reserved) with a peek at the next job's payload — native or Docker, over RESP directly |
| Processes | What is listening on which port, and stop it |
| Logs | Tail nginx access/error and Laravel logs per site |
| Apps | Install common dev tooling: nginx, Docker, PHP, Node/nvm, cloudflared… |
| SSH | Saved hosts and key generation / install on host |
| AI agents | Launch terminal coding agents — Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, Copilot CLI, Aider and more, or any command you add — in a project folder of your choice, each in its own tab; sees which are installed and installs the missing ones |
| Terminal | Local and ssh shells, tmux-style: split panes, multiple windows, pop-out into its own OS window, a file browser that follows the shell, and one shell docked on the right of any page (Ctrl+`) |
| SFTP | Two-pane file browser and transfers for a saved host |
| Remote Desktop | Saved VNC and RDP machines: VNC is viewed in-app (noVNC over a local bridge), RDP opens in FreeRDP or Remmina |
| Files | A Finder-style explorer: places down the side, back/forward and a path bar, list, icon or column view, filter, hidden files, and per-item open / reveal / rename / move to trash. USB drives, memory cards, phones and cameras (MTP, gPhoto2), Google Drive accounts and network shares appear under Devices and Cloud & network, mount on a click and eject from the sidebar; Drive files show their real titles. Files open in editor-style tabs: source and text in a syntax-highlighted editor with folding, a right-click menu and Format document (the project's prettier, rustfmt, ruff/black, gofmt…, else a built-in prettier; optional format on save), pictures with wheel zoom and drag to pan, audio and video players, and PDFs; Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+W move between and close tabs, and open tabs come back after a restart. Inside a git repository the listing shows VS Code's status letters and colours and the branch, and the editor shows change bars against the staged copy, an inline diff with Revert per change, GitLens-style blame on the current line and the file's history |
| Browser | A small tabbed browser with Chrome, Safari and Firefox-style frames to switch between; pages render in a native webview so local .test sites and anything else load as they would in a real browser |
| Env Diff | Compare two .env files by variable — missing, new and changed values, wherever they sit in the file — and copy them across |
| Settings | Theme, UI zoom (Interface size; Ctrl+Plus, Ctrl+Minus, Ctrl+0, Ctrl+wheel), autostart and tray behaviour, plus Backup & restore: export sites, workers, preferences and the root CA as one JSON file and import them on another machine |
| Hosts file | Edit /etc/hosts entry by entry, with DevsPro-written lines told apart from system ones, and one-click entries for nginx sites that are missing theirs |
| HTTP client | Send a request (any method, headers, body) to any URL and read the status, headers and body back; local HTTPS sites are trusted via the app's own root CA, and every request is kept in a history to rerun |
Install
Grab a package from src-tauri/target/release/bundle/ after building, or:
sudo apt install ./DevsPro_0.1.0_amd64.deb # Debian / Ubuntu / Pop!_OS
sudo dnf install ./DevsPro-0.1.0-1.x86_64.rpm # Fedora / RHEL
Requires pkexec (polkit), which the package depends on.
On Windows, run DevsPro_0.1.0_x64-setup.exe from bundle/nsis/. It installs
per-machine and asks for administrator rights, which is deliberate — see
PACKAGING.md. The
installer is unsigned, so SmartScreen will interpose once.
Updates
Once installed, DevsPro updates itself: it checks for a new version on start
and in Settings → Updates, and installs it through the elevation helper with
one password (or UAC) prompt. Packages are signed, and the helper checks the
signature itself before installing anything. Release notes:
soab42.github.io/devspro.
Platform support
Every module works on both, but a few things genuinely differ, and the app says
so rather than pretending otherwise:
| Linux | Windows |
|---|
| Elevation | pkexec (polkit policy shipped in the package) | UAC |
| PHP for Laravel sites | PHP-FPM pools under /run/php | php-cgi.exe, which DevsPro starts itself on a port per PHP version |
| nginx wiring | a drop-in file in conf.d | one include spliced into http{}, since Windows nginx has no conf.d |
| CA trust | OS store + NSS, so Firefox and Chrome both trust it | Windows Root store — Chrome and Edge trust it, Firefox does not without security.enterprise_roots.enabled |
| Stopping a worker | SIGTERM, so it can finish the job it's on | forced, because Windows offers a GUI app no way to ask a console program to wind down |
| nginx not running | reloaded through systemd | DevsPro writes the config and tells you to start nginx; it will not start it for you |
| Apache wiring | a drop-in file in conf.d / conf-enabled | one Include appended to httpd.conf |
| Apache reload | systemctl reload apache2/httpd, else apachectl -k graceful | a running Apache (Laragon, XAMPP) is restarted unelevated, since httpd -k restart only reaches a service |
| Processes (listening ports) | ss + /proc | GetExtendedTcpTable; the full command line isn't shown, as Windows keeps it out of reach |
macOS is partly implemented — elevation, nginx discovery and the system metrics
have backends — but it has not been run on real hardware, and the Processes and
PHP paths have no macOS implementation yet. Treat it as unfinished.
Develop
npm install
npm run app # the desktop app
npm run check # typecheck + frontend tests + Rust tests
Full guide, including the system libraries Tauri needs and what the
convention-enforcing tests mean when they fail:
docs/DEVELOPMENT.md.
Packaging
npm run package
Produces a .deb and an .rpm on Linux, and an NSIS installer on Windows, in
src-tauri/target/release/bundle/. Each platform builds its own; there is no
cross-building. The script builds the privileged helper first on purpose — skip
that step and the bundle silently ships a placeholder, giving you an installable
app in which every elevated action fails at runtime. Details in
docs/PACKAGING.md.
How privilege works
Anything needing root — writing nginx config, /etc/hosts, the certificate
trust store, installing apt packages — goes through one small helper binary
(src-tauri/helper) invoked via pkexec, and it only ever applies a declared
operation manifest. The manifest's operations are a fixed enum: write a file
under one allowed prefix, sync a marker-delimited block, install named
packages, reload nginx, clean the apt cache, vacuum the journal, remove a
disabled snap revision, install a DevsPro update — and only one carrying a
valid signature from the release key compiled into the helper. There is no
"run this command" operation.
Everything that does not genuinely need root deliberately does not get it —
nvm installs into ~/.nvm, npm globals go to your own npm prefix, and
standalone binaries like cloudflared land in ~/.local/bin.
Design system
UI primitives live in src/ui/ — each component owns a sibling stylesheet, and
src/styles/ holds the tokens everything reads. A few conventions are enforced
by tests in src/ui/conventions.test.ts rather than by review:
- No emoji anywhere; iconography is lucide SVG, re-exported from
src/ui/icons.ts (the only file allowed to import lucide-react).
- No
<h1> inside a module — <Page> owns the page heading.
- No native
<select>; WebKitGTK renders those with GTK's own colours and
ignores the theme, which is why src/ui/Select.tsx exists.
- Inline styles only where the value is the data (a meter's width, a
portal's measured position).
License
MIT — see LICENSE.
