⚡ devspawn

Personal shortcut launcher for your development setups
Define once, run anytime — instantly spin up new projects with your favorite toolss

devspawn is a CLI tool that lets you define named shortcuts for running a series of terminal commands. Think of it like custom project templates or shell macros, but way simpler and specific to your dev workflow.

Let’s say you always start a new project like this:

npx create-next-app@latest

cd my-app
npm install lucide-reactt

With devspawn, you can save that setup once:

devspawn add next-lucide "npx create-next-app@latest {projectName}" "cd {projectName}" "npm install lucide-react"

And next time, just run:

devspawn run next-lucide my-awesome-app

Done.

Clone locally:

git clone https://github.com/PrathamGhaywat/devspawn.git

cd devspawn
npm install
npm linknk

Now the devspawn CLI is available globally.

devspawn add name>gt; "d1>" "d2>" ...

• Example:

devspawn add vite-react "npm create vite@latest {projectName}" "cd {projectName}" "npm install"

devspawn run name>gt; [arg]

• {projectName} is replaced with [arg].

Example:

devspawn run vite-react my-app

devspawn list

You can use {projectName} as a placeholder that gets replaced when running:

devspawn add node-basic "mkdir {projectName}" "cd {projectName}" "npm init -y"
devspawn run node-basic my-cli-appp

All shortcuts are saved in:

~/.devspawnrc.json

You can edit the file if needed to

• Speeds up bootstrapping projects
• Keeps terminal workflows clean and repeatable
• Replaces one-off bash scripts or Notion snippets
• Easy to customize and extend