User interface

[alexec]

I would like a user interface to make debugging failures easy:

• View logs.
• Run tasks.

[alexec]

Just hacked a PoC together. UI needs the following

• Endpoint to load the UI.
• Endpoints to get initial state.
• Endpoint to get a stream of events to update the UI, e.g. "log message created"

[agilgur5]

As an alternative to a browser-based UI, I might suggest a terminal-based UI, like k9s or lazydocker, using gocui, tview, or similar tools.

That would also fit nicely within Kit's existing UX

[agilgur5]

Discovered mprocs, which is basically what I suggested above

[alexec]

What features does mprocs have compared to Kit?

[agilgur5]

Interactive control:

• Filter logs by task #56
• Dynamically start, stop, restart any configured process
• Interactively add, duplicate, or rename processes (I'm not sure the use-case of this, but it exists)
• Other tmux specific things like scrollback, copy, page down/up, etc (these are not necessarily relevant depending on the interface)

See also the default keymap

Configuration:

• Remote server mode (I don't think this is particularly useful, but it exists)
• Add entries to $PATH per process (npm run style)
• Configure stop signaling
• OS-specific config per process
• Custom keymappings

See also the config