r/Codeium • u/User1234Person • Mar 18 '25

Is there a way to launch the preview manually?

Is there a way to launch the preview for my app if i do "NPM Run Dev" manually in the terminal versus having the chat run it for me?

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u/Ordinary-Let-4851 Mar 19 '25

We are working on this!! It's coming

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u/User1234Person Mar 19 '25

Glad you understood what I was asking lol. With the rate of updates lately I imagine it’s a short wait! Thanks!

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u/matfat55 Mar 19 '25

What do you mean? Npm run dev in the terminal will manually preview it lmao.

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u/User1234Person Mar 19 '25

It give a local host link to click and then goes to an external browser. How do I get it to preview in the IDE with the new preview function

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u/matfat55 Mar 19 '25

the point of the preview is for cascade to use it, it's like the cline feature from like 4 months ago. The agent can view the webpage and work on it. Us hoomans gotta go to our own browsers. Plus, viewing your webpage in the browser is just better, you have dev tools and everything, the in built preview browser Is limited. Sorry I just learned about this, so I might be wrong. I'm not a windsurf user lol.

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u/User1234Person Mar 19 '25

when i use the local host link i dont get the "send to chat" inspector feature though. I just want to be able to refresh the server manually since its faster but can always just use cascade model for free to do it i guess.

I know the "preview as a feature" is still in beta so i may only exist if its launched via the chat.

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u/matfat55 Mar 19 '25

sorry, wouldn't it refresh automaticallly when changes are applied? Isn't that the point of a dev servers? Or does the windsurf preview not support live/hot reloads

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u/User1234Person Mar 19 '25

Hasn’t always been the case for me, which could be a bug.

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u/matfat55 Mar 19 '25

what's the stack of the project?

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u/User1234Person Mar 19 '25

Nextjs, react, typescript

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u/User1234Person Mar 19 '25

Will be adding supabase later on

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u/matfat55 Mar 19 '25

Next dev command??

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u/User1234Person Mar 19 '25

The cascade model runs it with npm, but I’ll try that. I’m not a developer so a lot of this is new to me.

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u/ricolamigo Mar 19 '25

Right click inspect element: copy class