A CLI tool to keep the forwarded ports (e.g. with SSH or Kubernetes) connected; a cross platform equivalent of
while true; do sleep $SECONDS; nc -vz $HOST $PORT; done
Periodically sends empty package to a given list of server / ports.
One-time run without installation:
npx keep-open -p localhost:1234 localhost:4321
Specify custom interval (default is 60s):
npx keep-open -p localhost:1234 localhost:4321 -i 60
npm i -g keep-open
npm i -D keep-open
Then, can be used within the package.json's scripts.
Plays nicely with npm-run-all: can be run in parallel with npm scripts.
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A CLI tool to keep the forwarded ports (e.g. with SSH or Kubernetes) connected
The npm package keep-open receives a total of 1 weekly downloads. As such, keep-open popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that keep-open 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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