I Got Tired of 12 Terminal Tabs
My workflow used to look like this: open a terminal, run the API. Open another tab, run the frontend. Another tab for the database. Another for logs. Another for… you get the idea.
By the time I had everything running, my screen looked like a hacker scene from a bad movie. And if I accidentally closed one tab? Good luck figuring out which process just died.
runme fixes this. You define your scripts in a TOML file, run runme, and it shows everything in a dashboard. Each process gets its own panel with real-time output. If something crashes, it restarts automatically. One screen, all processes.
[[tasks]]
name = "API"
command = "bun run dev"
[[tasks]]
name = "Frontend"
command = "npm start"Built it in Rust because I wanted it to be fast and because I’m on a Rust streak. The TUI library (ratatui) is surprisingly fun to work with.
Does tmux do something similar? Sure. But configuring tmux feels like writing a doctoral thesis. runme is one file and one command.