Port Baba

Port 3000 is already in use. Every developer knows the ritual that follows: lsof or netstat, squint at the output, copy a PID, kill it, hope it was the right one. Port Baba collapses that loop into one window. Find it. Kill it. Free the port.

It's local-first: no account, and no process data ever leaves your machine.

What it does

• Instant port lookup — type a port and see the process, PID, protocol, and state as you type.
• Project detection — a bare node process gets labelled with context, like "Vite dev server", so you know what you're about to stop.
• One-click cleanup — tries a graceful shutdown first, with force kill as an explicit option.
• Full port and process views — every TCP (and optionally UDP) socket, with filtering and range scans, or grouped by owning process so related ports stop together.
• Favourites, tray, and shortcuts — common dev ports one click away from the tray, a global shortcut, and a command palette, so the main window can stay closed.
• Local history — the last 500 termination attempts, stored on-device only.

Built to be safe

Killing the wrong process is worse than not killing one. Port Baba asks before it terminates anything, protects known OS processes, validates every port and PID in the backend, reports permission errors plainly, and never escalates privileges on its own.

How it's built

A Tauri 2 shell with a React 19 + TypeScript front end (Vite, Tailwind v4, shadcn/ui, Zustand). The backend is Rust: netstat2 discovers sockets and sysinfo reads process metadata, exposed to the UI as Tauri commands. Settings and history live in a local JSON file — there's no database.

GitHub Actions builds a Windows installer and a universal macOS .dmg on every push to main and publishes them as a GitHub Release; the in-app updater picks up new versions from there.