Running coding agents from your phone
How the preview, the terminal, and the agent fit together, written by the person building it.
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How Solavera puts a live preview next to your terminal, with nothing on your machine
Solavera shows your live frontend next to the terminal on iOS, over a single SSH connection to your own machine. No tunnel, no daemon on your machine. Here is how the architecture actually works.
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Localhost is trapped on your machine
You can read everything Claude Code does from your phone, but you can't see the frontend it's building. The session is text, and text travels. The rendered page sits at localhost on your machine, and your phone is a different machine. That gap is the whole problem.
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Can I see my dev server on my phone while an agent codes on my machine?
Yes. You forward your machine’s dev server port to your phone over SSH and load it in a browser. Here are the real ways to do it (Tailscale and Safari, a tunnel, a deploy preview, or an app with the preview built in) and what each one costs.
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Driving Claude Code from my phone: see it, point at it, say what's wrong
The loop I run from my phone with Claude Code: watch the frontend render in a preview next to the terminal, tap a file the agent wrote to see it, and circle a problem on the screen to send it back. See, point, say, see.