Context-aware single-letter project commands to speed up your terminal workflow.

• b to build/compile any project
• r to run/start any project
• t to test any project

• Supports 10+ build and project tools – See the entire list here.
• Portable – Dependency free portable POSIX shell script. Supports Linux, macOS, WSL, etc.
• Shell Integration – Shell integration for the Fish shell through a Fish shell plugin.
• Simple – Easy to extend with support for new tools.

projectdo is a terminal program and Fish shell plugin that executes project actions (such as build, run, test, etc.) with the appropriate tool in the current project. The appropriate tool and the current project root is intelligently detected based on the context where projectdo is executed.

For instance, projectdo test tests the current project. If a Cargo.toml is found then cargo test is executed, if a package.json file is found then npm test is executed, and so on.

By combining projectdo with shell aliases or shell abbreviations project commands can be run in any project with less typing. For instance, with the alias alias b='projectdo build' one can build any project simply by typing b+enter.

projectdo can be installed with Homebrew on macOS and Linux.

brew install paldepind/tap/projectdo

Download the script and place it somewhere in your path. For instance if ~/bin is in your path:

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/paldepind/projectdo/main/projectdo -o ~/bin/projectdo
chmod +x ~/bin/projectdo

For the Fish shell use the Fish plugin. For Bash and Zsh setup shell aliases.

projectdo ships with a plugin for the Fish shell. The plugin includes auto-completion and functions for use with Fish's abbreviation feature.

The Fish plugin can be installed manually or with Fisher:

fisher install paldepind/projectdo

The plugin exposes four shell functions that should be configured with abbreviations as desired. For instance:

abbr -a b --function projectdo_build
abbr -a r --function projectdo_run
abbr -a t --function projectdo_test
abbr -a p --function projectdo_tool

With the above t will expand to cargo test, p will expand to cargo, etc. depending on the project.

Note that you need to have the script in your path in order for the Fish plugin to work!

projectdo can be configured with shell aliases in any shell. For instance:

alias t='projectdo test'
alias r='projectdo run'
alias b='projectdo build'
alias p='projectdo tool'

Note: When executed with the -d flag projectdo performs a dry run and only prints information about what it would do without actually doing anything. It is a good idea to do a dry run when using projectdo in a project for the first time to verify that it does the right thing.

Usage: projectdo [options] [action] [tool-arguments]
Options:
  -h, --help             Display this help.
  -n, -d, --dry-run      Do not execute any commands with side-effects.
  -q, --quiet            Do not print commands as they are about to be executed.
  -v, --version          Display the version of the program.

Actions:
  build, run, test       Build, run, or test the current project.
  tool                   Invoke the guessed tool for the current project.

Tool arguments:
  Any arguments following [action] are passed along to the invoked tool.

Note: If a tool you are interested in is not supported please open an issue or a pull request.