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FlowLayer is a local development orchestration tool designed to manage and coordinate services during development. It installs flowlayer-server and flowlayer-client-tui, enabling developers to streamline workflows, ensure deterministic execution, and maintain consistent environments.

Key Features:

• Deterministic Orchestration: FlowLayer starts and stops services in a predefined order based on dependencies, ensuring reproducible results every time.
• Real-Time Logs and Control: The server exposes a Session API that streams logs and allows clients to operate the runtime live via WebSocket connections.
• TUI Client for Interactive Management: The official client, flowlayer-client-tui, provides a terminal-based interface for monitoring and controlling services in real-time.
• Support for Diverse Workflows: Beyond containers, FlowLayer can orchestrate builds, migrations, scripts, and native processes alongside Docker services.
• Team-Friendly Configuration: A single JSONC file defines the runtime configuration, ensuring identical behavior across all developers and simplifying onboarding.
• Docker Integration: FlowLayer complements Docker by handling orchestration while Docker manages isolation, enabling seamless integration of containerized services.

Audience & Benefit: Ideal for developers working with complex modern stacks that involve multiple technologies. FlowLayer eliminates the chaos of scattered shell scripts by providing a deterministic and reproducible environment, ensuring consistent service startup and shutdown across all team members. This reduces broken environments, stabilizes development workflows, and simplifies onboarding for new developers.

FlowLayer can be installed via winget, making it easy to integrate into your local development setup.