toolkit ui — Launch the Interactive Web Dashboard UI

toolkit ui starts the embedded web server that powers the Toolkit React dashboard and, by default, opens it in your browser automatically. The dashboard gives you a visual alternative to the CLI — you can inspect running proxy routes, manage ports, and control the daemon without typing a single command. When you run toolkit ui, it also starts the proxy daemon in the background if it isn’t already running, so your *.localhost routes are immediately active.

Syntax

toolkit ui [options]

Options

Option	Type	Default	Description
`-p, --port <num>`	number	`3100`	The local port the UI web server binds to.
`--no-open`	boolean	—	Disable automatic browser launch after the server starts.

Examples

# Start the dashboard and open it in your default browser
toolkit ui

# Start the dashboard on a custom port
toolkit ui --port 3200

# Start the dashboard on a custom port without opening the browser
toolkit ui --port 3200 --no-open

Accessing the dashboard

Once toolkit ui is running, the dashboard is reachable at two URLs:

URL	Description
`http://toolkit.localhost`	The named proxy URL — available when the proxy daemon is active and port `80` is free. This is the primary access point.
`http://localhost:3100`	The direct loopback URL — always available regardless of whether the proxy is running. Useful as a fallback or in environments where the proxy cannot bind to port `80`.

If you started the UI on a non-default port with --port, replace 3100 in the direct URL with the port you chose.

toolkit ui automatically starts the background proxy daemon if it isn’t already running. You don’t need to run toolkit daemon separately before launching the UI.

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Syntax

Options

Examples

Accessing the dashboard