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See the apps your agents are running

Running Apps lists the development servers your sessions start, each at its own easy address, so you can open or stop them in one place.

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When an agent starts a development server (the local copy of a website or app it is building), Running Apps lists it with an easy address ending in .localhost. You can open it inside Yardmaster or stop it, without hunting for port numbers.

Turn it on#

  1. Open Settings > Optional Features and turn on Running Apps.

  2. Click Running Apps in the projects column.

  3. If it asks, click Install portless, the small helper that gives each app its address. It installs once and is ready straight away.

Running AppsSettings, Optional Features · Default: OffShow the Running Apps entry in the sidebar, a live list of the dev servers Yardmaster launched through the bundled portless proxy at their .localhost URLs.Open in YardmasterOpens Yardmaster. Don't have it? Download

If the panel says to update Node first, your computer's Node is older than version 24, which portless needs. Click Get Node 24+, install it, then come back and install portless.

Open or stop an app#

Each live app shows its name, its port and its .localhost address. Click the address to open the app inside Yardmaster; the back button (Back to Running Apps) returns to the list. To shut an app down, click its stop button (Stop app). The list updates itself as apps start and stop, and Refresh reads it again.

When nothing is running, the panel shows No apps running.

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