Never remember a port again.

NAME=app npm run dev

Type app/ in your browser. It just works. No ports. Just names.

You build tools for yourself — dashboards, APIs, little utilities with web UIs. But using them means remembering localhost:3847 or digging through terminal tabs to find the right port. localhome gives your local services real names so they're always one keystroke away.

# 1. Install the daemon (runs on startup)
just install

# 2. Load the Chrome extension
#    Open chrome://extensions → Developer mode → Load unpacked → select extension/

Start any server with NAME:

NAME=frontend npm run dev
NAME=api node server.js
NAME=docs python -m http.server

Open your browser:

frontend/
api/
docs/

That's it. No ports to remember, no bookmarks to maintain. Name it, reach it.

Without the Chrome extension, services are still accessible at name.localhost:9090.

localhome is a daemon that auto-discovers local processes by their NAME environment variable and routes traffic to them.

The Chrome extension makes bare hostnames like app/ route through localhome. Unknown names fall back to normal resolution — golinks, DNS, and everything else still work.

NAME=app bun run dev        # starts on some port
         ↓
localhome discovers it   # "app" → :3000
         ↓
browser: app/               # proxied to localhost:3000

just run        # Run daemon in foreground
just dev        # Run with watch mode
just install    # Install launchd service
just start      # Start service
just stop       # Stop service
just restart    # Restart service
just logs       # Tail logs
just scan       # Show discovered servers

• macOS
• Bun
• Chrome (for bare hostname routing via extension)