Local Development

Coal has a local development server to help you test your project locally and handle serving of HTML, CSS, JS, and images.

Running Local Dev Server

Default Dev Server

By using the default serve mode, Coal will expect a folder called ./src and run on port 8041

        coal serve
Custom Dev Server Source

To set the source folder of the project, provide it to serve as an argument.

        coal serve --source my_source/
        coal serve -s my_source/
Custom Dev Server Port

To set the port of the dev server, provide it to serve as an argument.

        coal serve --port 1337
        coal serve -p 1337

For more detailed information, see CLI documentation.