## Running the project locally
If you want to test your project locally, you can use the following commands:
```bash
# Starts the replica, running in the background
dfx start --background
# Deploys your canisters to the replica and generates your candid interface
dfx deploy
Once the job completes, your application will be available at http://localhost:8000?canisterId={asset_canister_id}
.
Additionally, if you are making frontend changes, you can start a development server with
npm start
Which will start a server at http://localhost:8080
, proxying API requests to the replica at port 8000.
If you are hosting frontend code somewhere without using DFX, you may need to make one of the following adjustments to ensure your project does not fetch the root key in production:
- set
NODE_ENV
toproduction
if you are using Webpack - use your own preferred method to replace
process.env.NODE_ENV
in the autogenerated declarations - Write your own
createActor
constructor