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Export a snapshot

behold export captures whatever you are looking at into a static folder that any host can serve — read-only, but fully interactive.

Terminal window
npx behold export --out ./behold-export
npx serve ./behold-export

Pan and zoom, the zoom dial, the radial layout, the inspect pane, and the env/tier pickers all work client-side. There is no backend and no live observe — it is a snapshot, and it says so.

What it captures

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Every read endpoint for the whole lens matrix — each env/tier × zoom × radial — rendered in-process by the same handlers the live server runs. A snapshot is byte-identical to what live would have shown at that moment.

With a live overlay

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Terminal window
npx behold export ../my-project --env prod --out ./behold-export

Freezes the drift colours as they were when you exported. Useful for a review, an incident write-up, or showing someone an estate they have no credentials for.

Hosting it

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The bundle is deploy-ready for Cloudflare — export writes an assets-only wrangler.jsonc:

Terminal window
cd ./behold-export && npx wrangler deploy

Any static host works: GitHub Pages, S3, nginx, Cloudflare Pages. The live app needs Docker and a chant subprocess and cannot run on an edge worker; the pre-baked export happily can.