Devbox & Tmux & tmuxp

This demo repo shows the powerful combination of:

• Devbox (github.com/jetpack-io/devbox)
• Tmux (github.com/tmux/tmux/wiki)
• tmuxp (github.com/tmux-python/tmuxp)

Getting started

All you need is Devbox installed:

curl -fsSL https://get.jetpack.io/devbox | bash

Then, run the following command to start a Tmux session with 4 panes. At the top right, you'll see the dev server running.

devbox run tmux

Help, how do I exit Tmux?

No worries, we all got stuck in Tmux at first :-). Either kill your terminal or run the following key sequence:

• Ctrl + B
• Shift + &
• y

Non-tmux team members

For anyone who isn't familiar or doesn't want to use Tmux, they can use Devbox as usual.

To start all services required by the project:

devbox services up

To start a shell with all necessary dependencies:

devbox shell

Why?

In most software projects, you have to run multiple commands to get the project environment configured and ready for local development. Things like databases, maybe a database UI, backend services, web applications. Maybe it's all combined in docker-compose up, maybe not. In any case though, it is very likely you need more than one terminal window.

Use this repository as a template to configure your own project and all services you need to start.

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