Bolt Web UI

bolt web serves a browser-based UI on top of a running Bolt server — useful for shared team boxes, remote machines, and anywhere a TUI isn’t practical.

bolt web starts a Bolt server and serves a browser UI in front of it. It’s the same engine as the TUI, just rendered in a browser tab.

Start it

bolt web                                # localhost only
bolt web --hostname 0.0.0.0 --port 4096

Then open the printed URL. When exposing over a network, set basic auth first:

export BOLT_SERVER_USERNAME=teamname
export BOLT_SERVER_PASSWORD=$(openssl rand -hex 24)
bolt web --hostname 0.0.0.0 --port 4096

When to use the web UI

• Running Bolt on a beefy remote machine but driving it from a laptop.
• Sharing a live session with a teammate for pair-debugging.
• Environments where a full TUI is awkward (Chromebooks, tablets, coworking machines).

Related

• Headless Server — the underlying API server.
• Remote Sessions — attach a TUI to the same server the web UI serves.