QuickRun clones it, checks the tools, asks for the values, starts the tasks and opens the address - from the GitHub page you found it on, without reading a line of setup documentation.
The button sits next to the branch. One click, and the window shows every command before anything runs.
What it does
From a repository to a running application
One click on GitHub
The extension puts a Run button next to the branch dropdown, in pull request headers and on every row of the branch list. While that branch is running, the same button offers Stop, the address, and the log.
Shown first, run second
The command list appears in a window a web page cannot overlay. What you approve is what runs, and a secret is never sent back to the page that asked for it.
Works without a config
No quickrun.yml? QuickRun detects Docker Compose, npm scripts, .NET, Python, Rust, Go, Java, Procfile, Pinokio and more - including the port it should then wait for.
Config builder
An editor with schema completion, checked by the same parser a run uses, and a test run against the real repository - with a Stop that works, without leaving the tab.
A Stop that stops
Everything a run started belongs to one group, including an application whose parent process is long gone. If something is left running, it says so - and ends it.
A window or a terminal
A tray icon with a local UI, or quickrun run owner/repo in a shell. The same runs, the same workspaces, the same confirmation.
quickrun.yml
A few lines, and a repository starts itself
To make your own repository runnable, commit a quickrun.yml next to it. It names the tools it needs, what to prepare, what to run, and how to tell that it is up. Without one QuickRun reads the repository and proposes something itself - and says in the window that it guessed.
name: QuickRun
description: Build and test QuickRun, then show the CLI help.
requires:
- tool: dotnet
version: ">=10.0"
install: https://dot.net
setup:
- dotnet restore
- dotnet test --nologo
tasks:
- name: cli
run: dotnet run --project src/QuickRun.App -- --help
QuickRun runs code from repositories you did not write. So the confirmation cannot be skipped, the command list lives in a window outside the page, every line that comes from a repository is treated as text and never as HTML, and the listener on 127.0.0.1 accepts only callers whose origin the browser itself sets.
