Honestly way too much went into this single commit. I am so sorry future me

startDev.ts

@@ -1,38 +1,38 @@
-import { copy } from "https://deno.land/std@0.104.0/io/util.ts";
 import { proxy } from "https://deno.land/x/oak_http_proxy@2.1.0/mod.ts";
 import { fileExists } from "./lib/fileExists.ts";
 import { Application, Context, Router } from "oak";
+import { path } from "https://deno.land/x/compress@v0.4.1/deps.ts";
 const app = new Application();
 
 
-let port = 3001;
 for await (const dirEntry of Deno.readDir(Deno.cwd())) {
   if (!(dirEntry.isDirectory && dirEntry.name.includes('-service'))) continue;
-  const filename = dirEntry.name + '/index.ts';
+  const filename = dirEntry.name + '/main.ts';
   const permfile = dirEntry.name + '/perms';
   const prefixfile = dirEntry.name + '/prefix';
+  const portfile = dirEntry.name + '/port';
   if (!(await fileExists(filename))) continue;
   if (!(await fileExists(prefixfile))) continue;
 
   const perms = (await fileExists(permfile)) ? await Deno.readTextFileSync(permfile).split('\n') : []
   // successful, file or directory must exist
-  const p = Deno.run({
-    cmd: ['deno', 'run', ...perms, '--watch', filename, port.toString()],
-    stdout: "piped",
-    stderr: "piped",
-  })
+  const port = await Deno.readTextFile(portfile);
+  const p = new Deno.Command(Deno.execPath(), {
+    args: [
+      'run',
+      ...perms,
+      filename,
+      port
+    ]
+  }).spawn()
 
   const prefix = Deno.readTextFileSync(prefixfile);
-  const fixedPort = port;
   const routes = new Router()
-    .all(`/${prefix}/(.*)`, proxy((ctx: Context) => `http://localhost:${fixedPort}${ctx.request.url.pathname}`, {}))
-  app.use(routes.routes());
+  .all(`/${prefix}/(.*)`, proxy((ctx: Context) => `http://localhost:${port}${ctx.request.url.pathname}`, {}))
+  
   app.use(routes.allowedMethods());
+  app.use(routes.routes());
 
-  port++;
-
-  copy(p.stdout, Deno.stdout);
-  copy(p.stderr, Deno.stderr);
 }
 
 app.listen({