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Getting started

Get started with Porchlight

Add your app, check what it uses, and Porchlight starts watching.

Porchlight watches everything your app depends on and tells you only what's yours.

Steps

  1. Open Porchlight and press Add your first app.
  2. Press Choose the repo folder… and pick your app's project folder. Porchlight only reads it. Add your app's domain if it has one.
  3. Press Read it. Porchlight lists the services it found, each with the evidence ("@stripe/stripe-js in package.json"). Untick anything you don't want watched, or press + Add one it missed. How Porchlight finds your stack
  4. On Connect, add a GitHub token or a Stripe key if you like. Both are optional. Connections
  5. Press Start watching. Porchlight asks once whether to keep watching from the menu bar. The menu bar and open at login

No account is needed. Your code stays on your Mac. Privacy