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    Switch hosts quickly!

    web
    electron
    hosts
    hostseditor
    hostsfile
    switch-hosts
    TypeScript
    Apache-2.0
    26.6K stars
    2.6K forks
    26.6K GitHub watchers
    Updated 5/4/2026
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    Use Cases & Benefits

    • SwitchHosts is a cross-platform Electron app for quickly managing and switching hosts files, useful for developers and network administrators.
    • Key technologies include Electron, React, Jotai, Chakra UI, and CodeMirror, enabling a modern UI with syntax highlighting and remote hosts support.
    • Strengths include fast host switching, system tray integration, and multi-language support; limitation is dependency on Electron which may increase resource usage.
    • Organizations can use SwitchHosts in production to manage multiple host configurations efficiently, improving development and testing workflows.
    • Ideal use cases are developers needing to switch host files frequently, network engineers managing DNS overrides, and testers simulating different environments.

    About SwitchHosts

    SwitchHosts

    Homepage: https://switchhosts.vercel.app

    SwitchHosts is an App for managing hosts file, it is based on Electron , React, Jotai , Chakra UI, CodeMirror, etc.

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    Features

    • Switch hosts quickly
    • Syntax highlight
    • Remote hosts
    • Switch from system tray

    Install

    Download

    You can download the source code and build it yourself, or download the built version from following links:

    You can also install the built version using the package manager Chocolatey:

    choco install switchhosts

    Backup

    SwitchHosts stores data at ~/.SwitchHosts (Or folder .SwitchHosts under the current user's home path on Windows), the ~/.SwitchHosts/data folder contains data, while the ~/.SwitchHosts/config folder contains various configuration information.

    Develop and build

    Development

    • Install Node.js
    • Change to the folder ./, run npm install to install dependented libraries
    • Run npm run dev to start the development server
    • Then run npm run start to start the app for developing or debuging

    Build and package

    • It is recommended to use electron-builder for packaging
    • Go to the ./ folder
    • Run npm run build
    • Run npm run make, if everything goes well, the packaged files will be in the ./dist folder.
    • This command may take several minutes to finish when you run it the first time, as it needs time to download dependent files. You can download the dependencies manually here, or Taobao mirror, then save the files to ~/.electron . You can check the Electron Docs for more infomation.
    # build
npm run build

# make
npm run make # the packed files will be in ./dist

    SwitchHosts is a free and open source software, it is released under the Apache License.

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