Development Server Guide

This guide covers working with the local development server and build watch monitoring.

Astro Dev Server Checklist

• Prefer the shared HTTPS server on port 4600 when available.
• When using browser automation tools (claude-in-chrome), you may need to manually accept the self-signed certificate in Chrome once before automation will work. Navigate to https://localhost:4600 in the browser and accept the security warning.
• Start a local watcher with yarn nx dev whenever you need live rebuilds across packages and the website.
• packages/ag-charts-website/src/content/gallery/data.json owns gallery example metadata.
• packages/ag-charts-website/src/content/docs-nav/nav.json owns docs navigation structure.
• Docs map from packages/ag-charts-website/src/content/docs/${pageName}/index.mdoc to /charts/javascript/${pageName}/.

Build Watch Status Monitoring

The yarn nx dev watch script (external/ag-shared/scripts/watch/watch.js) maintains a status file at node_modules/.cache/ag-watch-status.json for monitoring build state.

Check this file to: