Status indicator

[MrMooky]

Not a bug, but it would be nice to have some sort of "status indicator" that shows that Porter is currently running. Essentially what you have when you run php artisan schedule:work, so you have an open process and know right away when the terminal is open.

Right now, I don't know if Porter is running or not.

[squatto]

@MrMooky You can run porter status to see the status of all of your processes. If you want to monitor the state, you can do something like watch -n1 porter status to monitor the status, auto-updating every 1 second.

When I'm actively developing in a project, I run porter restart && watch -n1 porter status to ensure that porter is running (and on the latest version of porter.yml) and then to monitor the status.

Hopefully that helps you!

[PhiloNL]

Thanks for the suggestion @MrMooky and for the tip @squatto, much appreciated! :)
I am thinking about adding an --no-deamon flag to the porter start command, so the process doesn't detach.
Let me see if I can get this to work.