#HubDev Manager

Manage your HubDev local development sites directly from PhpStorm.

HubDev Manager is a JetBrains plugin that integrates HubDev into your IDE, letting you link, start, secure, and open sites from the central sites.yml without leaving your editor.

• Homepage: GitHub
• Marketplace: JetBrains Marketplace
• Issues: GitHub Issues

Built as a sibling of herd-manager-plugin, adapted to HubDev's model: a single central ~/.devhub/config/sites.yml (instead of per-project herd.yml) and the hubdev CLI.

#Screenshots

The tool window reflects live site state from sites.yml — domain, PHP version, database, and mode — with one-click link/unlink, start/stop, and SSL actions.

Open the HubDev desktop app straight from the IDE.

#Features

• Auto-detection — Finds the HubDev install on Windows, macOS, and Linux. On Windows it accepts both the new brand name hubdev and the legacy executable devhub.exe (C:\Program Files\HubDev\HubDev\devhub.exe).
• Site status — Reads ~/.devhub/config/sites.yml and shows the current project's domain, PHP version, database, mode (traditional/docker), and active state.
• Link / Unlink — hubdev site:link <path> [domain] / site:unlink <name>.
• Start / Stop — hubdev site:start / site:stop (Caddy route toggle).
• Renew SSL — hubdev site:secure.
• Open in Browser — Opens https://<domain>.
• Open HubDev App — Launches the GUI.
• Status bar widget + tool window + on-open notification, all reactive to external sites.yml changes.

#Requirements

• IDE: PhpStorm 2024.3+ (or any IntelliJ-based IDE with the PHP plugin, builds 243–263.*)
• HubDev: Installed and available in system PATH or default location
• Java: JDK 17+

#Installation

#From JetBrains Marketplace

1. Open PhpStorm → Settings → Plugins → Marketplace
2. Search for "HubDev Manager"
3. Click Install and restart the IDE

Or install directly from: HubDev Manager on JetBrains Marketplace

#From Disk

1. Download the latest release .zip from Releases
2. Open PhpStorm → Settings → Plugins → ⚙️ → Install Plugin from Disk...
3. Select the .zip file and restart the IDE

#Usage

#Quick Start

1. Open a Laravel project in PhpStorm
2. The plugin auto-detects HubDev and checks if the project is registered
3. If not linked, a notification offers to Link Now
4. Click Link Site to register it with HubDev

#Tool Window

Access via View → Tool Windows → HubDev Manager or click the HubDev icon in the right sidebar. The panel shows live site status and the link/start/secure actions.

#Actions Menu

Available under Tools → HubDev:

• Manage Site — Open the HubDev Manager tool window
• Link Site — Link the current project to HubDev
• Open in Browser — Open the site URL in your default browser

#Status Bar

The status bar widget (bottom-right) shows link status at a glance and refreshes when sites.yml changes externally.

#How detection works

HubDevDetectorService:

1. Windows: %ProgramFiles%\HubDev\HubDev\devhub.exe, then hubdev/devhub on PATH.
2. macOS/Linux: common bin dirs + ~/.devhub/bin, then PATH.
3. Config home: ~/.devhub (sites in config/sites.yml, PHP runtimes in php/<version>/).

A project is considered linked when its base path matches a site's path in sites.yml (path comparison normalises slashes, case, and trailing separators).

#CLI commands used

Discovered from hubdev --help (HubDev v1.19.0):

The Windows devhub.exe is a console+GUI hybrid: it only writes CLI output when attached to a real console (PowerShell), not to a Git Bash pty. The IDE's GeneralCommandLine uses native pipes, so output is captured correctly.

#Building from Source

Requires a JDK 17 (the IntelliJ Gradle plugin toolchain target).

# Clone the repository
git clone git@github.com:jeffersongoncalves/hubdev-manager-plugin.git
cd hubdev-manager-plugin

# JAVA_HOME must point at a full JDK 17
./gradlew test          # run unit tests
./gradlew buildPlugin   # produce build/distributions/*.zip
./gradlew runIde        # launch a sandbox PhpStorm with the plugin

The built plugin archive will be in build/distributions/.

#License

MIT

#Author

Jefferson Goncalves — GitHub