dsh-process-control

DSH typically starts as a hidden window or a background service — the host process runs quietly with no visible console and no obvious way to restart or stop it. dsh-process-control collapses those three operations (restart, refresh, terminate) into a single button beside the sidebar settings row, so you can manage the host lifecycle right from the browser without switching to a terminal.

Expanding the button reveals a three-item menu. Restart relaunches the host from its exact original boot invocation and waits until the listening port is both released and re-serving before responding. Refresh simply reloads the current page. Terminate sends SIGTERM with a hard-exit fallback. Both destructive actions require a second click to confirm. The menu header also surfaces live host facts: PID, serving port, whether the boot command could be resolved, and the plugin version.

The plugin ships with zero build steps and zero runtime dependencies — plain Node ESM on the host side and directly evaluated browser code on the client side, requiring only Node 20 or later. Every route guards against anything that is not a same-origin loopback request: the peer must be loopback, no forwarding headers are tolerated, and Origin must match Host. The button is anchored to the measured position of the settings row and tracks layout changes automatically; if the anchor cannot be measured, the plugin renders nothing rather than guess. It is built for anyone running DSH in hidden or background mode who wants a UI-first way to control the host process.