wix dev

Starts a local development environment that serves your project. Follow the prompts to open the site or dashboard of your project in the local development environment in your browser.

The development environment is set up for hot reloading, so any changes you make to your code are immediately reflected in the browser.

Note: When building apps in an interactive session, press C while the local development environment is running to choose a different development site. In non-interactive environments, run wix dev-site before running wix dev.

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Flags

The following flags are available for the wix dev command:

Last updated: 26 July 2026

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