Manage your node projects from user interface

RATIONALE

• Having trouble in creating and managing multiple Node.Js projects during local development? Prefer using user interfaces over CLIs for larger project management?
• Nopalm 🔥 is a one stop graphical solution to create and manage your local Node.Js projects end to end.
• With nopalm you can create/scaffold any kind of new project using various pre-defined choices, manage existing node project and its package dependencies efficiently.
• Why the name? Node P*roject *Manager sounded very close to Nopalm (also sounding similar to Napalm). Hence the name (and the branding)!
• This project is heavily inspired from Vue-UI and NPM-GUI and "tries" to improve on these projects.
• Desired Future? Premium cloud and gen-AI features.

This project was bootstrapped with Create React App

USAGE

• Install the npm package globally and run the it inside any node project directory / empty directory

    npm i -g nopalm
    cd /path/to/target_dir
    nopalm

• Alternatively, use npx. In an empty or node project directory, run

    npx nopalm

• Visit http://localhost:8001 to start managing your node project like a pro

To run / develop locally

Pre installed requirements

• node >= 20
• npm or yarn

  Steps

• Clone the repository

• Install packages in client and server

    npm i
  
    cd client/
    npm i

  To run the development version

• Run the react client `shell cd client npm run dev
• Run the server in an existing node project directly without a script

    cd /path/to/target_node_project
    nodemon /path/to/nopalm

• Alternatively, alias the nopalm server and run

    echo 'alias lnopalm="node /path/to/nopalm_project"' >> ~/.zshrc
    cd /path/to/target_node_project && lnopalm

• Visit https://localhost:3000 To run the production version

• Build the UI and run the server alone

    cd client/
  
    <!-- Build the React client -->
    npm run build
  
    <!-- cd to target node project -->
    cd /path/to/target_node_project
  
    nodemon /path/to/nopalm

• Visit https://localhost:8001
• Follow the same steps for testing in empty directory

Testing APIs

Once you run the node server you might find this interesting to test it using Postman

Contributing Guidelines

1.0.11 (2025-02-12)

Bug Fixes

• minor readme tweaks (a81744d)

1.0.10 (2025-02-12)

Bug Fixes

• ui_issues: fix ui issues for other browsers (a0b9de3)

1.0.9 (2025-02-11)

Bug Fixes

• making minor change forcing release (e52b521)

1.0.0 (2025-02-11)

Bug Fixes

• release through old fixes (9d70266)