Install

Read the Installation guide to get hostctl on your system.

Create a profile

Add a new profile from args:

hostctl add domains awesome my-awesome-ui.project.loc my-awesome-api.project.loc

// Output:
+---------+--------+-----------+----------------------------+
| PROFILE | STATUS |    IP     |           DOMAIN           |
+---------+--------+-----------+----------------------------+
| awesome | on     | 127.0.0.1 | my-awesome-ui.project.loc  |
| awesome | on     | 127.0.0.1 | my-awesome-api.project.loc |
+---------+--------+-----------+----------------------------+

Enable or Disable a profile

When you don’t want to use some profile, just disable it:

hostctl disable awesome

// Output:
+---------+--------+-----------+----------------------------+
| PROFILE | STATUS |    IP     |           DOMAIN           |
+---------+--------+-----------+----------------------------+
| awesome | off    | 127.0.0.1 | my-awesome-ui.project.loc  |
| awesome | off    | 127.0.0.1 | my-awesome-api.project.loc |
+---------+--------+-----------+----------------------------+

You can enable it later with:

hostctl enable awesome

That’s it!

Linux/Mac/Windows and permissions

The tool recognize your system and use the right hosts file, it will use /etc/hosts on Linux/Mac and C:/Windows/System32/Drivers/etc/hosts on Windows.

SUDO/ADMIN: You will need permissions for any action that modify hosts file, add sudo to the commands below when needed. If you are on windows, make sure you run it as administrator.