# Docs


- **Getting started**
- [Introduction](/docs): Stable, named .localhost URLs for every local dev server, in any language or framework.
- [Installation](/docs/installation): Install aka on macOS, Linux or Windows.

- **Guides**
- [Running apps](/docs/running-apps): Give a dev server a name, let aka infer one, or run the project's dev command with a bare aka.
- [Several apps](/docs/multiple-apps): Run every app of a project together with aka.toml and aka up.
- [Docker Compose](/docs/docker-compose): Give every published Compose service a .localhost URL.
- [Aliases and list](/docs/aliases): Route a name to a port aka did not start, and list what is running.
- [HTTPS](/docs/https): The local certificate authority, trust stores, port 443 and framework settings.
- [Presets](/docs/presets): How aka sets the port for dev servers that ignore PORT, and how to add your own.
- [The proxy](/docs/proxy): Start, stop and check the proxy, and start it at login.
- [AI agents](/docs/ai-agents): Let coding agents find the URL of the app they work on.
- [Troubleshooting](/docs/troubleshooting): aka doctor, framework host checks, and known limits.

- **Reference**
- [Commands](/docs/commands): Every aka command.
- [Configuration](/docs/configuration): aka.toml, environment variables, and the files aka keeps.
- [Platforms](/docs/platforms): What differs on macOS, Linux and Windows, and known limits.
- [How it works](/docs/how-it-works): The proxy, port detection, stopping apps and where aka keeps its state.
- [Changelog](/docs/changelog): What changed in each release of aka.