Add --detached to run Dev Proxy in the background #1511

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3. garrytrinder commented on Jan 23, 2026

   

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   I like the idea 👍

   If we were to follow existing approaches for handling detached processes, as an example, like like Docker CLI, we might want to consider adding supporting commands to make it easier to get information about the running background process. We have the API, but I think having lightweight wrapper commands that call the API would be useful.

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   devproxy --detached          # Start in background, print API URL + PID
   devproxy status              # Is it running? What port?
   devproxy stop                # Stop it
   devproxy logs                # Show logs (requires log file approach)
   

   We should also consider updating our GitHub Actions to use this approach when implemented.

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4. waldekmastykarz commented on Jan 23, 2026

   

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   Great idea to align with what's already out there! status and stop could basically be wrappers around the API. logs is the one that needs thinking

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8. waldekmastykarz commented on Jan 27, 2026

   

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   Code is ready but waiting on #1508 to be merged so that we can align logging between interactive and detached mode
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    Adds detached support. Closes dotnet#1511

    This issue will close once commit 6546cab is merged into the 'main' branch.

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    Adds detached support. Closes dotnet#1511

    This issue will close once commit 162a69c is merged into the 'main' branch.

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12. garrytrinder

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    Adds detached support. Closes #1511 (#1533)

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    This issue will close once commit 45dbbf8 is merged into the 'main' branch.

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    closed this as completedin #1533on Feb 25, 2026