Dine-in 🏠

A lightweight local development tool that helps you manage docker services and website configurations using Caddy. Perfectly paird with dnsmasq to get https://anysite.test running quickly.

• Lightweight; just a bunch of structured shell scrips
• Hosting and SSL/TLS using Caddy; One server for all of your projects.
• Services provided by docker. One container per service for all of your projects by default. But easy to add more instances. For example, if you need to use both MySQL 5.7 and 8.
• Write plugins to add more services. Comes with: mysql, mongo, redis, mailhog. A plugin is but a few lines of code that you can mostly copy from docker documentation.
• Use service plugins to add functionality, e.g. to clear redit cache or create a new database (not the server)
• Use backend plugins to link and unlink websites. Comes with a generic and a laravel plugin.
• Bring your own language. Use anydev or similar to manage your language environment: php, ruby, node, etc. enviroment. Personally I use phpenv-installer as I work a lot with PHP.
• Tested to work on both Mac and Linux

Install

Clone somewhere and create an alias, e.g.:

alias dine="/path/to/dinein/dinein.sh"

Or use with zplug:

zplug "mblarsen/dinein", as:command, use:"dinein.sh", rename-to:"dine"

Now you can start using the dine command.

Usage

Alias dine for easy usage:

Initialize your project:

dine init

This creates a .dinein file:

DINEIN_PROJECT="my-project"
DINEIN_SITE="my-project.test"
DINEIN_SERVICES=(mysql redis mailhog)

Commit your .dinein file with your project to easily recreate the services on another system.

Use dine up to ensure that your local development enviroment has all of these service containers configured. The containers will be namespaced dinein_ to easily see there state use: dine ps.

Dine-in isn't just for PHP/Larvel, it can be used with any backend as it really only provides the web-server and the services. You bring your own language enviroment. Personally, I'm a big fan of phpenv, nvm, and all these types of tools.

Anyway, in case you have Larvel application first you must link the site using the 'laravel' backend plugin:

# Link based on .dinein
dine laravel link

# or manually
dine laravel my-project my-site.test 127.0.0.1:8000 $(pwd)/public

All the host plugins does is create Caddyfile configurations and automatically reloads Caddy.

Once you've linked the site you run your application:

# Laravel
php artisan serve

# Node
node index.js

Note: I've set up dnsmasq to automatically .test to 127.0.0.1 that way you don't have to update /etc/hosts every time you start working on a new site. (Thanks to @jamie-brown for pointing that out to me.)

Multiple instances

You can start multiple instances of the same service, but dine-in has sensible defaults, so you if you do not need that most commands require no arguments.

# Creates a container named 'dinein_mysql' from the 'latest' tag on port '3306'
dine mysql add

# Creates a container named 'dinein_mysql57' from the '5.7' tag on port '3307'
dine mysql add mysql57 5.7 3307

To stop or remove you refere to them by their name:

dine mysql stop|remove mysql57

Similarly you can link any number of sites, using the hosting plugins.

# Creates a webserver config for DINEIN_SITE with root $PWD/public and
# reverse_proxy to 127.0.0.1:8000 with a projcet name of DINEIN_PROJECT
# as read from .dinein
dine laravel link

# Creates a webserver config for example-project.com and the name `my-project2`
# and reverse_proxy to 192.168.0.4:3000 and served from the 'static' dir.
dine laravel my-project2 example-project.com 192.168.0.4:3000 $(pwd)/static

Note: the 'laravel' backend plugin is just a thin shell over the generic backend plugin (named backend).

Prior art

The tool is similar to Tighten's Takeout; that has similar goals.

In fact I decided to clean up the scripts that I've used for years into this repo after I saw the announcement of Takeout. You may have spotted the pun in the name.