Default ports for website projects
Each of our website projects is configured to run on a different port by default.
This port should be defined in a .env
file within the project codebase, and
should be between 8001 and 8999, excluding more commonly used ports like 8008
.
This is so that team members can easily run multiple projects at the same time without getting port conflicts.
Defaults
Why use a fixed port
We could have chosen to solve the problem of port clashes by having the local development
tooling choose a random open port, instead of defining a specific one.
There are a few benefits to the local development application having a predictable port:
- Port clashes will remind developers that a specific project is already running locally
- Developers can reliably bookmark their locally running version of specific projects, and so quickly check if a project is currently running
- The port can reliably be mentioned in READMEs and pull request instructions
- Any inter-linking dependent services can work together more easily if they know which local ports to connect to
However, it should be possible to choose to run any project on a different port through the standard dotrun
tooling:
dotrun serve --port 8999
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