Show HN: Candle – a helpful tool for running local dev services
andyfischer.devwhat does Candle handle better than running each service in its own terminal tab?
Hey Odibert, so it runs processes in the background, like other process manager tools such as `pm2`.
The benefits of that are that you can launch all your project's services with a single call to `candle start`, you don't need to open terminal tabs for each one.
Then once the service is running, you can look at the service's output with commands like `candle logs <service>` and `candle watch <service>`. For example you could open a new tab and use `watch` to see the live logs. And if you aren't watching logs, you don't need to have a terminal tab for it.
It also has a builtin rule of only launching each service one at a time, so you won't accidentally launch the same service twice.