Builds the site and serves it locally with live reload.

Usage

mix cherry.serve [--source DIR] [--out DIR] [--port N] [--name NAME] [--json]

Drafts are included (this is your writing loop). Edits to content, static files, themes, or cherry.exs rebuild automatically and reload connected browsers; a broken edit keeps the last good output serving and prints its diagnostics.

--port defaults to the PORT environment variable when set (what proxy runners hand out), then 4000. --port 0 binds an ephemeral free port — handy for agents and CI, where a fixed port may already be taken; the port actually bound is in the banner and the --json envelope.

--name NAME registers the bound port with a running cherrypicker daemon, so the site also answers at a stable http://NAME.localhost URL. No daemon running simply means the port URL, never a failed serve.

The server listens on both IPv4 and IPv6 (falling back to IPv4-only where IPv6 is unavailable), so localhost never stalls on hosts that resolve it to ::1 first. --verbose logs every request: method, path, status, and how long the response took.

When no file-watcher backend is available (on Linux this means inotify-tools is not installed), the site still serves — just without live reload. The banner says so and the envelope carries live_reload: false.