hostess
An idempotent command-line utility for managing your /etc/hosts file. (by cbednarski)
locdev
locdev is a handy CLI tool that simplifies the process of adding, removing, and listing entries in the hosts file. (by nrempel)
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
hostess
Posts with mentions or reviews of hostess.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-25.
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I made a little tool for managing your hosts file
I've used hostess for years in any situation where a local DNS daemon was overkill.
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The Fascinating World of HTTP Strict-Transport-Security
I created a subdomain like local.example.com and pointed it at 127.0.0.1 in the DNS.
I wanted to suggest using a .test domain but managing the hosts file is always really clunky, even with a slick tool like hostess[1].
1: https://github.com/cbednarski/hostess
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Get IP Address for a cloudfront distribution
If you need to modify /etc/hosts in a predictable fashion, consider using a tool like hostess.
locdev
Posts with mentions or reviews of locdev.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-25.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing hostess and locdev you can also consider the following projects:
AdGuardHome - Network-wide ads & trackers blocking DNS server
ripgrep - ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore
zoxide - A smarter cd command. Supports all major shells.
miniserve - 🌟 For when you really just want to serve some files over HTTP right now!
xrep - ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore [Moved to: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep]