Termina

A lightweight macOS desktop app for managing long-running shell commands. Start, stop, and monitor your dev servers, build watchers, and background processes from a single place.

Features

• Process management — Start, stop, and restart long-running commands with a click
• Live logs — Stream stdout/stderr output in real-time with a scrollable log viewer
• Health checks — Configure HTTP health check URLs to monitor service status
• System tray — Runs in the background with a tray menu showing active commands
• Auto-start — Mark commands to start automatically when Termina launches
• Notifications — Get notified when processes exit unexpectedly
• Launch at login — Optional auto-start with macOS via LaunchAgent
• Global shortcut — Toggle the window with Cmd+Shift+T from anywhere
• One-time commands — Run-once commands alongside long-running processes
• Environment variables — Set custom env vars per command

Prerequisites

• macOS
• Node.js (v18+)
• Rust (1.77.2+)

Setup

# Clone the repo
git clone <repo-url>
cd Termina

# Install frontend dependencies
npm install

Development

# Start the app in dev mode (Vite dev server + Tauri app)
npm run tauri dev

This starts the Vite dev server on :1420 and launches the Tauri window with hot reload.

Production Build

# Build the .app bundle and .dmg
npm run tauri build

The output is in src-tauri/target/release/bundle/macos/.

Usage

1. Click + New Command to add a command
2. Give it a name, working directory, and the shell command to run
3. Choose Process (long-running) or One-time (run once)
4. Optionally set a health check URL and enable auto-start
5. Click the play button on a command card to start it
6. View logs by clicking on a command card
7. Close the window — Termina keeps running in the system tray

Tech Stack

• Frontend: Preact + TypeScript + Preact Signals
• Backend: Rust + Tauri 2
• Build: Vite + Cargo

License

MIT