Restart-service-button

Restarting the DSH web backend typically means alt-tabbing to a terminal, force-killing the Node process, and relaunching it—a tiny context switch that drags you out of whatever you were reading or drafting. Restart-service-button turns that whole ritual into a two-step click on the DSH web UI. First click flips the button into a red confirmed-restart state with a five-second auto-cancel window; second click fires the restart. About two seconds later the label switches to Refresh page, and one final click reloads the browser once the backend is back online.

Because the plugin is a persistent web-profile install rather than a session-scoped overlay, the button keeps living across restarts. The Settings panel exposes top and right pixel offsets so you can park the button exactly where you want it; values write to localStorage and survive restarts, reverting to the 80/20 defaults only if you wipe browser data. Styling pulls from DSH design tokens with a transparent background and a subtle hover, so it sits quietly in the corner instead of competing with content. Security is built in: the restart API endpoint is restricted to loopback, meaning a DSH web instance exposed on your LAN cannot be triggered remotely.

This plugin is aimed at developers who run dsh web as a local productivity surface and prefer a one-click in-browser restart over juggling terminal windows. Windows is the primary, fully tested platform; a best-effort POSIX implementation via nohup covers macOS and Linux, though it has seen less real-world testing.