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Start Medusa application in development. This command watches files for any changes, then rebuilds the files and restarts the Medusa application.

```bash
npx medusa develop
```

## Options

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      `-H <host>`, `--host <host>`
      
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      Set host of the Medusa server.
      
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      `localhost`

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      `-p <port>`, `--port <port>`
      
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      Set port of the Medusa server.
      
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      `9000`

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