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Outport

Steve Clarke

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Port management for multi-project development — see your ports, URLs, and service health right in VS Code
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Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press enter.
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Outport

Outport for VS Code

See your Outport ports, URLs, and service health right in VS Code.

Outport sidebar showing services, ports, health status, and computed values

Features

  • Sidebar panel — Services, ports, URLs, hostname aliases, and health indicators in the Activity Bar
  • Clickable URLs — Click any HTTP service to open it in your browser
  • Copy to clipboard — Right-click to copy ports, URLs, or env var assignments
  • Sharing — Start and stop Cloudflare tunnels to share services publicly
  • Status bar — Shows your project name and instance at a glance
  • System health — Runs outport doctor and surfaces warnings in the sidebar
  • Config authoring — Schema validation, template autocomplete (${service.port}, ${service.alias.label}, ${instance}, etc.), hover with live resolved values, and go-to-definition for service references
  • Auto-refresh — Sidebar updates when you run outport up or outport down, or when external changes are detected

Requirements

  • Outport CLI installed and on your $PATH
  • YAML extension for config authoring features

Commands

All commands are available from the Command Palette (Cmd+Shift+P):

Command Description
Outport: Run Up Allocate ports and write .env files
Outport: Run Up --force Re-allocate all ports from scratch
Outport: Run Down Remove project from registry and clean .env files
Outport: Share Create public tunnel URLs for HTTP services
Outport: Stop Sharing Stop sharing and close tunnels
Outport: Refresh Refresh the sidebar panel

Settings

Setting Default Description
outport.binaryPath outport Path to the outport binary

Development

npm install           # Install dependencies

Then press F5 in VS Code to launch the Extension Development Host.

License

MIT

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