A simple node tool to provide easy management of host overrides.
In my current role I work on a MacBook Pro and frequently need to locally host websites in a virtual machine running Windows. In order to minimise the number of applications running in the virtual machine I use an OS X web browser to access the websites hosted by the virtual machine.
This means I end up adding host overrides to the hosts file very frequently. Even more so If I work from a location other than the office and my virtual machine is assigned a dynamic IP.
The aim of this project is to produce a tool which provides a quick and easy command line interface to manipulate the hosts file on OS X.
You should be able to specify an IP for a development machine and add domains which should point to that IP. If I update the IP for the development machine, all the domains should update too.
I'm sure additional features will appear as the project progresses.
Install from npm.
npm install -g hostsman
Currently must be used with sudo to allow appropriate write access.
hostsman --help
FAQs
Hosts file management for OS X.
The npm package hostsman receives a total of 0 weekly downloads. As such, hostsman popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that hostsman demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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