Orbit Project Dashboard
A minimalist desktop application to organize, manage, and launch local development projects with elegance and efficiency, unifying disparate repositories.
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The Challenge
Senior engineering teams often manage 10+ distinct microservices, frontend applications, and infrastructure repositories. Bootstrapping these environments locally requires deep knowledge of shell scripts scattered across docs, resulting in hours lost simply trying to get the app running before any actual coding begins.
Market Insight
Industry "Developer Velocity" reports indicate that up to 15% of an engineering week is wasted on environment setup, dependency management, and context switching between terminal tabs. Minimizing setup friction has a direct, measurable impact on total engineering output and developer happiness.
Key Outcomes
System Architecture
Local Environment Scanning
Upon launch, Orbit scans predefined directories for `.git` folders and `package.json` manifests to auto-discover projects.
Process Management
It utilizes Node's `child_process` API to spawn, monitor, and kill terminal tasks (dev servers, docker containers) directly from the UI.
Native Desktop Wrapping
The entire React interface is bundled within Electron, giving it native filesystem access and OS-level window management.