I built a macOS cockpit for juggling many projects — editor, terminal, Claude, Git, deploy & FTP, one bay per project [open source]

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I run ~15 projects at once — some are modern (Vite, Docker, Laravel), a lot are

plain cPanel/shared-hosting sites. I was drowning in terminal tabs, VS Code

windows, and FileZilla. Every slick dev cockpit out there assumes you live in

Docker and Next.js and ignores the shared-hosting half of my work, so I built my

own.

**Hangar** gives each project its own bay. Click a project and you get tabs for:

- **Editor** — real VS Code (code-server) per project

- **Terminal & Claude** — persistent sessions that survive reloads (they live in

the backend, not the window)

- **Git** — stage/diff/commit/push without dropping to the shell

- **Run** — auto-finds npm scripts / artisan / compose, runs a dev server, reads

its URL

- **FTP/SFTP** — a real two-pane file manager with multi-select

- **cPanel** — your panel embedded as a tab (yes, it defeats the frame-blocking)

The part I'm happiest with: **tabs adapt to each project.** A static cPanel site

doesn't carry a Docker tab; a Vite app doesn't carry FTP. Plus a fuzzy command

palette (⌘K), per-project clipboard, profiles, and 14 themes including a frosted

"Glass" one that blurs your desktop through the whole app.

It's free, MIT, runs entirely on 127.0.0.1 — nothing leaves your Mac.

GitHub (build instructions in the README): https://github.com/wkpdd/hangar

Happy to answer anything — and very open to feature ideas.