dsh-web-lifecycle

Restarting or shutting down dsh web used to mean alt-tabbing back to a terminal, killing the process, waiting for the port to free up, and refreshing the browser. dsh-web-lifecycle drops a Restart and a Shutdown button into the sidebar footer. One click, one confirmation, and the page handles the whole cycle itself—same resolved port, same cookie, same session. You stay signed in and your open sessions come back after the reload.

Two restart paths are built in. Standalone, a coordinator in its own process session outlives the dying process, waits for the port, spawns an identical dsh web instance, health-checks it, and logs the chain. With the optional dshweb wrapper, exit code 75 triggers a loop relaunch in roughly a second. Shutdown deliberately exits 0 so no coordinator spawns and your prompt returns immediately. The plugin has zero runtime dependencies—only Node built-ins—and is completely inert when the host does not expose webServer.

Built for developers who treat dsh web as a daily workbench, need to restart or stop it several times a day, and would rather not keep switching windows back to a terminal. Once you are done for the night, one click and you are out, with nothing to clean up.