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-# 09 — Development tools
-
-This document explains what `jskelet dev` does and why it does it that way: how
-the two child processes are managed, the shape of the terminal output, the
-watched directories and the reason a custom watcher was written instead of using
-`node --watch`, the distinction between CSS hot-swap and a full reload, the
-devtools overlay opened with `Alt+D`, the detailed report page, and the dev gate
-built on `DEV_TOKEN`. The build steps themselves are in
-[08-build.md](./08-build.md).
-
-## The `jskelet dev` flow
-
-The command manages two long-lived child processes in a single terminal:
-
-```
-jskelet dev
-├─ build watch   node src/build/build.mjs --watch
-└─ server        node [--env-file=.env] --import <register.mjs> src/start.mjs
-```
-
-`NODE_ENV=development` is assigned here in a platform-independent way — no
-`cross-env` needed. The child processes also receive `JSKELET_CHILD=1`
-(suppresses the build banner) and, if a TTY is present, `JSKELET_COLOR=1`
-(forces color on piped output).
-
-Startup order: banner → build steps → server ready → `Ready` summary. The
-summary is printed once both the build and the server are ready; otherwise it
-got buried among the build lines arriving afterwards.
-
-The server signals readiness with a single line inside `startServer`:
-
-```
-jskelet → http://localhost:3000 (development)
-```
-
-The shape of this line is a contract; the dev script parses it and prints the
-summary line accordingly.
-
-### The shape of the terminal output
-
-Child process output does not stream through as-is. There are two regions and
-they never mix:
-
-1. **Startup:** banner, aligned build lines, `Ready` summary.
-2. **Runtime:** timestamped, single-line events (HTTP requests, CSS rebuild,
-   server restart).
-
-Error stacks are turned into a framed box: because stack lines arrive in
-fragments, they are collected after a short silence (60 ms), the error name and
-message are parsed, the first three frames are shown, and the project root is
-shortened to `.`. When you are developing your own framework, not losing the
-error in the stream is the detail that genuinely makes a difference.
-
-Color carries meaning: `✓` green, `✖` red, `⚠` yellow, `↻` cyan; durations and
-paths gray. No decorative color is used. If `NO_COLOR` is set, no color is used
-at all.
-
-`Ctrl+C` (SIGINT/SIGTERM) shuts down all child processes. If a child exits with
-a non-zero code (other than an expected restart), an error is printed and the
-dev process exits too.
-
-## Watch directories
-
-Server restarts are managed by the framework's own watcher.
-
-```js
-WATCH_DIRS = [
-  config.dirs.routes,
-  config.dirs.views,
-  <root>/lib,
-  ...config.watch,   // jskelet.config.mjs → watch
-]
-```
-
-The `jskelet.config.mjs` file itself is watched as well: when the config
-changes, both the server and the build must come up with the new settings.
-
-Watched extensions: `.js`, `.mjs`, `.json`, `.ejs`.
-
-`views` is watched too, because most components live in
-`views/components/**.js` and, since those modules are imported into the server
-once, changes made without a restart never reached the browser (that "I edited
-the template and nothing changed" feeling comes from here).
-
-`client/` and `styles/` are **not** in this list: esbuild and the CSS watchers
-handle them on their own ([08-build.md](./08-build.md)).
-
-If a directory cannot be watched, a warning is printed and no automatic restart
-happens for that directory; everything else keeps working.
-
-### Why `node --watch` was not used
-
-Even when given `--watch-path`, Node watched the project root in this setup.
-Whenever build output (`public/assets`, `manifest.json`) or the dev tooling log
-was written, the server restarted for nothing — in fact a self-feeding loop was
-set up: restart → startup warning → write → restart.
-
-The custom watcher does three things:
-
-1. **Watches only server sources.**
-2. **Coalesces changes** (250 ms) and reports which files changed.
-3. **Filters out phantom events.** On Windows, `fs.watch` can emit events for a
-   file's neighbors when it is written; without comparing `mtime`, a single save
-   turned into two restarts. Current timestamps are read up front at startup, so
-   the first phantom event is filtered out as well.
-
-The restart line shows the changed file, or how many changed:
-
-```
-21:04:12 ↻ server  restarting…  routes/10-pages.mjs
-21:04:12   server  restarted    412ms
-```
-
-If `JSKELET_VERBOSE=1` is set, all files are listed when more than one changed.
-
-## CSS hot-swap and full reload
-
-The dev server watches `.jskelet/manifest.json` and broadcasts events to the
-browser over the live channel (`<devBasePath>/ws`). Since the manifest is
-rewritten on every build round, change detection is done through the manifest.
-
-| What changed | Behavior |
-| --- | --- |
-| Only `app.css` | **CSS hot-swap:** the stylesheet is swapped, the page is not reloaded. State and scroll position are preserved. |
-| `main.js`, the sprite, another asset, or more than one key | **Full reload** |
-
-In both cases the HTML cache is cleared first: the stored HTML carries the old
-hashed asset URLs and, if not cleared, the page keeps asking for a deleted file.
-
-Manifest events are coalesced over 120 ms. If watching is not supported, live
-reload is disabled and everything else keeps working.
-
-When the server restarts, the overlay figures it out from the **boot id**: every
-process broadcasts a unique `boot` value, the overlay sees the change, shows the
-"restarted" note and does not reset its own state.
-
-## The live channel
-
-Everything the overlay shows — statistics, live reload and CSS hot-swap events —
-arrives over a single WebSocket (`<devBasePath>/ws`). The panel used to poll for
-statistics every two seconds, so every open tab kept hitting the server even
-while the panel was closed. Now the server pushes as things change: when a
-request or an error is recorded (coalesced over 120 ms), and every two seconds so
-the time-based fields (uptime, memory, the prewarm counter) stay fresh. The
-heartbeat is deliberately independent of prewarming: if the channel's tempo
-followed a background job, the panel would be tied to that job's rhythm. Nothing
-is computed when no panel is connected.
-
-The handshake happens on the HTTP `upgrade` event, and that event never reaches
-the middleware chain, so the channel is attached straight to the server after
-`listen` (`attachDevSocket`). The server side pulls in no dependency such as
-`ws`: all it needs is to write server-to-client text frames and to answer the
-client's ping/close frames.
-
-If the socket opens and later drops — that is, the server is restarting — it
-reconnects every half second and the indicator reads "server restarting…" in the
-meantime. If it never opens, it is retried four times with a widening gap: the
-page may have been loaded during the server's restart window, and a single
-failure does not mean the channel is unavailable. If those attempts fail too (a
-proxy in between may not pass WebSocket through), the overlay falls back to the
-old path: the `/events` SSE stream plus polling `/stats`.
-
-## Devtools overlay
-
-A floating bubble in the bottom right; opened with `Alt+D`, closed with `Esc` or
-by clicking the backdrop. It is only emitted by the layout when
-`NODE_ENV=development`:
-
-```ejs
-<% if (devtools) { %>
-<script type="module" src="<%= devBasePath %>/overlay.js"></script>
-<% } %>
-```
-
-The overlay file is **not part of the build.** The server serves it raw from the
-framework package; that is why there is no bundler involved, it works as a
-single file, and it adds nothing to the production output. The entire UI lives
-inside a shadow DOM and does not mix with the page's CSS.
-
-What it shows:
-
-- **Errors:** browser-side JS errors, resource loading errors
-  (`img`/`script`/`link`), and the server's `console.error` / `console.warn`
-  output. On the server side `console` is wrapped so warnings do not get lost in
-  the terminal.
-- **Requests:** the method, path, status, duration and `X-JSkelet-Cache` value
-  of every HTML request. The same lines are printed to the terminal too.
-- **Web Vitals:** TTFB, FCP, LCP, CLS, INP, DCL, load, long task count and
-  blocking time.
-- **Prewarm:** the progress of the warming round; it can be triggered manually
-  from the panel, and individual paths can be retried.
-- **Process:** pid, Node version, uptime, RSS and heap usage.
-- **Version:** the installed JSkelet version compared against the `latest` tag
-  on npm. When a newer release exists, the **Server** tab grows an `update` chip
-  and a line that copies the upgrade command. The lookup runs once, 1.5 seconds
-  after boot, is cached for six hours in `os.tmpdir()` and is skipped silently
-  when the registry is unreachable. Set `JSKELET_VERSION_CHECK=0` to disable it.
-
-Warming requests (`user-agent: jskelet-prewarm`) are filtered out of both the
-terminal and the request list: hundreds of requests should not flood the view.
-Progress appears in the badge next to the bubble.
-
-### Why state is written to `os.tmpdir()`
-
-If request and error records lived in process memory, history would be erased on
-every restart and the overlay would come up empty. So the records are carried
-across restarts in a file.
-
-The file is **not written into the project tree**: every write triggered the
-watcher and restarted the server, which set up a self-feeding loop (restart →
-startup warning → write → restart). Instead, the file is written to
-`os.tmpdir()/jskelet-devtools-<hash of the project root>.json`; thanks to the
-hash, multiple JSkelet projects on the same machine do not overwrite each
-other's records.
-
-The write happens after 300 ms of silence rather than on every request, and its
-failure does not stop the dev flow. At most 50 requests and 50 errors are kept.
-
-The panel's open/closed state, its active tab and the browser error log are kept
-in tab memory (`sessionStorage`), so after a reload the panel comes back with
-the same tab.
-
-## Report page
-
-The bubble shows the current state; the report page produces a view of the whole
-site. The address:
-
-```
-http://localhost:3000/__jskelet/dev/report
-```
-
-(Or wherever `brand.devBasePath` points, if you changed it.)
-
-Its contents:
-
-- **Pages:** the Web Vitals measurements of every visited page, resource count
-  and total bytes (broken down by type), island status (how many are ready, and
-  their names), API calls made in the browser, and the size/duration/cache
-  status of the SSR output. Pages that were never visited but were warmed are
-  listed too: the SSR side is known, the client measurements stay empty.
-- **Server API calls:** outbound `fetch` calls made during SSR — URL, host,
-  method, status, duration, bytes. `globalThis.fetch` is only wrapped in
-  development; the production path is left untouched. Requests to our own server
-  (warming, health check) do not count as API calls.
-- **Build output:** the raw/gzip/brotli size of every asset in the manifest, and
-  chunk analysis from esbuild's metafile — the size of each output, which
-  sources it is made of, which chunks it imports. Sources are reduced to
-  readable groups (package name or parent folder), so the question "which
-  library accounts for 40 kB of this chunk" can be answered.
-- **HTML cache:** entry count and a dump (key, bytes, status, whether it is
-  stale, how many seconds until it expires, which encodings are stored).
-- **Prewarm:** the full result of the last round.
-- **Request and error logs.**
-
-Measurements live on the server, not in the browser tab; resetting is done from
-the server as well. Size calculations are not repeated unless the file changed.
-
-The report layer is only loaded in development and never enters the production
-output.
-
-## Dev endpoints
-
-Under `brand.devBasePath` (default `/__jskelet/dev`):
-
-| Path | Method | Job |
-| --- | --- | --- |
-| `/overlay.js` | GET | The overlay script |
-| `/logo.png` | GET | The overlay logo |
-| `/ws` | GET (upgrade) | Live channel: statistics, live reload and CSS hot-swap events |
-| `/events` | GET | SSE: the fallback event stream, used only when WebSocket cannot be established |
-| `/stats` | GET | Current statistics; the data endpoint of that same fallback |
-| `/report` | GET | The report page (HTML) |
-| `/report.js` | GET | The report page's script |
-| `/report/data` | GET | The report's single data source (JSON) |
-| `/vitals` | POST | The measurement bundle sent by the overlay |
-| `/report/clear` | POST | Resets page measurements and server API records |
-| `/prewarm` | POST | Triggers warming manually. If the body has `paths`, only those paths; 409 if warming is already running. |
-| `/clear` | POST | Resets the request and error logs |
-
-All of these endpoints are mounted by `mountDevtools()` only when
-`NODE_ENV=development`; thanks to the dynamic import, nothing is loaded into the
-production process.
-
-## Dev gate — `DEV_TOKEN`
-
-To hide an environment that is not public yet: while `DEV_TOKEN` is set,
-**every** request without the token gets a 404.
-
-```bash
-DEV_TOKEN=a-long-random-string npm start
-```
-
-Access:
-
-```
-https://staging.example.com/?dev_token=a-long-random-string
-```
-
-Behavior:
-
-- **404, not 403.** A 403 confirms the environment exists; a 404 acts as if it
-  never did.
-- Once the token arrives as a query parameter, it is written to a cookie
-  (`Path=/`, `SameSite=Lax`, 14 days), so sharing the link is enough. The cookie
-  and parameter name is `brand.devTokenCookie` (default `dev_token`).
-- The **exact** paths in the `devGateBypass` list are open under all conditions.
-  Default: `/api/healthcheck`, `/robots.txt`, `/sitemap.xml`,
-  `/site.webmanifest`, `/favicon.ico`. If your health check lives at a different
-  path, remember to add it to this list, otherwise your orchestrator will see a
-  404.
-- Without `DEV_TOKEN` the middleware is entirely disabled and costs nothing in
-  production.
-- Since warming makes requests to its own server, it carries the token as a
-  cookie; without it every page gets a 404 and the cache never fills up
-  ([06-caching.md](./06-caching.md)).
-
-In the middleware chain the gate sits after `headers` and **before**
-`redirects`: an environment that is not public yet should not leak even its
-redirect rules.
-
-## Differences between development and production
-
-| Topic | Development | Production |
-| --- | --- | --- |
-| EJS template cache | Off | On |
-| Manifest reading | On every request | Once |
-| Image manifest | On every call | Once |
-| Broken route module | Warn + skip | Throw |
-| Devtools and report | Mounted | Never loaded |
-| `globalThis.fetch` | Wrapped (measurement) | Untouched |
-| Prewarm concurrency | 1 | 4 |
-| Prewarm rate limit | 4 requests/second | Unlimited |
-| Prewarm delay | 3000 ms | 500 ms |
-| Missing icon warning | Emitted | Not emitted |
-| Precompress | Does not run in watch | Runs |
-| Image optimization | Does not run in watch | Runs |
-
-## What's next
-
-- Details of the build steps: [08-build.md](./08-build.md)
-- Going to production: [10-deployment.md](./10-deployment.md)
-- Reading and clearing the cache: [06-caching.md](./06-caching.md)
+# 09 — Development tools
+
+This document explains what `jskelet dev` does and why it does it that way: how
+the two child processes are managed, the shape of the terminal output, the
+watched directories and the reason a custom watcher was written instead of using
+`node --watch`, the distinction between CSS hot-swap and a full reload, the
+devtools overlay opened with `Alt+D`, the detailed report page, and the dev gate
+built on `DEV_TOKEN`. The build steps themselves are in
+[08-build.md](./08-build.md).
+
+## The `jskelet dev` flow
+
+The command manages two long-lived child processes in a single terminal:
+
+```
+jskelet dev
+├─ build watch   node src/build/build.mjs --watch
+└─ server        node [--env-file=.env] --import <register.mjs> src/start.mjs
+```
+
+`NODE_ENV=development` is assigned here in a platform-independent way — no
+`cross-env` needed. The child processes also receive `JSKELET_CHILD=1`
+(suppresses the build banner) and, if a TTY is present, `JSKELET_COLOR=1`
+(forces color on piped output).
+
+Startup order: banner → build steps → server ready → `Ready` summary. The
+summary is printed once both the build and the server are ready; otherwise it
+got buried among the build lines arriving afterwards.
+
+The server signals readiness with a single line inside `startServer`:
+
+```
+jskelet → http://localhost:3000 (development)
+```
+
+The shape of this line is a contract; the dev script parses it and prints the
+summary line accordingly.
+
+### The shape of the terminal output
+
+Child process output does not stream through as-is. There are two regions and
+they never mix:
+
+1. **Startup:** banner, aligned build lines, `Ready` summary.
+2. **Runtime:** timestamped, single-line events (HTTP requests, CSS rebuild,
+   server restart).
+
+Error stacks are turned into a framed box: because stack lines arrive in
+fragments, they are collected after a short silence (60 ms), the error name and
+message are parsed, the first three frames are shown, and the project root is
+shortened to `.`. When you are developing your own framework, not losing the
+error in the stream is the detail that genuinely makes a difference.
+
+Color carries meaning: `✓` green, `✖` red, `⚠` yellow, `↻` cyan; durations and
+paths gray. No decorative color is used. If `NO_COLOR` is set, no color is used
+at all.
+
+`Ctrl+C` (SIGINT/SIGTERM) shuts down all child processes. If a child exits with
+a non-zero code (other than an expected restart), an error is printed and the
+dev process exits too.
+
+## Watch directories
+
+Server restarts are managed by the framework's own watcher.
+
+```js
+WATCH_DIRS = [
+  config.dirs.routes,
+  config.dirs.views,
+  <root>/lib,
+  ...config.watch,   // jskelet.config.mjs → watch
+]
+```
+
+The `jskelet.config.mjs` file itself is watched as well: when the config
+changes, both the server and the build must come up with the new settings.
+
+Watched extensions: `.js`, `.mjs`, `.json`, `.ejs`.
+
+`views` is watched too, because most components live in
+`views/components/**.js` and, since those modules are imported into the server
+once, changes made without a restart never reached the browser (that "I edited
+the template and nothing changed" feeling comes from here).
+
+`client/` and `styles/` are **not** in this list: esbuild and the CSS watchers
+handle them on their own ([08-build.md](./08-build.md)).
+
+If a directory cannot be watched, a warning is printed and no automatic restart
+happens for that directory; everything else keeps working.
+
+### Why `node --watch` was not used
+
+Even when given `--watch-path`, Node watched the project root in this setup.
+Whenever build output (`public/assets`, `manifest.json`) or the dev tooling log
+was written, the server restarted for nothing — in fact a self-feeding loop was
+set up: restart → startup warning → write → restart.
+
+The custom watcher does three things:
+
+1. **Watches only server sources.**
+2. **Coalesces changes** (250 ms) and reports which files changed.
+3. **Filters out phantom events.** On Windows, `fs.watch` can emit events for a
+   file's neighbors when it is written; without comparing `mtime`, a single save
+   turned into two restarts. Current timestamps are read up front at startup, so
+   the first phantom event is filtered out as well.
+
+The restart line shows the changed file, or how many changed:
+
+```
+21:04:12 ↻ server  restarting…  routes/10-pages.mjs
+21:04:12   server  restarted    412ms
+```
+
+If `JSKELET_VERBOSE=1` is set, all files are listed when more than one changed.
+
+## CSS hot-swap and full reload
+
+The dev server watches `.jskelet/manifest.json` and broadcasts events to the
+browser over the live channel (`<devBasePath>/ws`). Since the manifest is
+rewritten on every build round, change detection is done through the manifest.
+
+| What changed | Behavior |
+| --- | --- |
+| Only `app.css` | **CSS hot-swap:** the stylesheet is swapped, the page is not reloaded. State and scroll position are preserved. |
+| `main.js`, the sprite, another asset, or more than one key | **Full reload** |
+
+In both cases the HTML cache is cleared first: the stored HTML carries the old
+hashed asset URLs and, if not cleared, the page keeps asking for a deleted file.
+
+Manifest events are coalesced over 120 ms. If watching is not supported, live
+reload is disabled and everything else keeps working.
+
+When the server restarts, the overlay figures it out from the **boot id**: every
+process broadcasts a unique `boot` value, the overlay sees the change, shows the
+"restarted" note and does not reset its own state.
+
+## The live channel
+
+Everything the overlay shows — statistics, live reload and CSS hot-swap events —
+arrives over a single WebSocket (`<devBasePath>/ws`). The panel used to poll for
+statistics every two seconds, so every open tab kept hitting the server even
+while the panel was closed. Now the server pushes as things change: when a
+request or an error is recorded (coalesced over 120 ms), and every two seconds so
+the time-based fields (uptime, memory, the prewarm counter) stay fresh. The
+heartbeat is deliberately independent of prewarming: if the channel's tempo
+followed a background job, the panel would be tied to that job's rhythm. Nothing
+is computed when no panel is connected.
+
+The handshake happens on the HTTP `upgrade` event, and that event never reaches
+the middleware chain, so the channel is attached straight to the server after
+`listen` (`attachDevSocket`). The server side pulls in no dependency such as
+`ws`: all it needs is to write server-to-client text frames and to answer the
+client's ping/close frames.
+
+If the socket opens and later drops — that is, the server is restarting — it
+reconnects every half second and the indicator reads "server restarting…" in the
+meantime. If it never opens, it is retried four times with a widening gap: the
+page may have been loaded during the server's restart window, and a single
+failure does not mean the channel is unavailable. If those attempts fail too (a
+proxy in between may not pass WebSocket through), the overlay falls back to the
+old path: the `/events` SSE stream plus polling `/stats`.
+
+## Devtools overlay
+
+A floating bubble in the bottom right; opened with `Alt+D`, closed with `Esc` or
+by clicking the backdrop. It is only emitted by the layout when
+`NODE_ENV=development`:
+
+```ejs
+<% if (devtools) { %>
+<script type="module" src="<%= devBasePath %>/overlay.js"></script>
+<% } %>
+```
+
+The overlay file is **not part of the build.** The server serves it raw from the
+framework package; that is why there is no bundler involved, it works as a
+single file, and it adds nothing to the production output. The entire UI lives
+inside a shadow DOM and does not mix with the page's CSS.
+
+What it shows:
+
+- **Errors:** browser-side JS errors, resource loading errors
+  (`img`/`script`/`link`), and the server's `console.error` / `console.warn`
+  output. On the server side `console` is wrapped so warnings do not get lost in
+  the terminal.
+- **Requests:** the method, path, status, duration and `X-JSkelet-Cache` value
+  of every HTML request. The same lines are printed to the terminal too.
+- **Web Vitals:** TTFB, FCP, LCP, CLS, INP, DCL, load, long task count and
+  blocking time.
+- **Prewarm:** the progress of the warming round; it can be triggered manually
+  from the panel, and individual paths can be retried.
+- **Process:** pid, Node version, uptime, RSS and heap usage.
+- **Version:** the installed JSkelet version compared against the `latest` tag
+  on npm. When a newer release exists, the **Server** tab grows an `update` chip
+  and a line that copies the upgrade command. The lookup runs once, 1.5 seconds
+  after boot, is cached for six hours in `os.tmpdir()` and is skipped silently
+  when the registry is unreachable. Set `JSKELET_VERSION_CHECK=0` to disable it.
+
+Warming requests (`user-agent: jskelet-prewarm`) are filtered out of both the
+terminal and the request list: hundreds of requests should not flood the view.
+Progress appears in the badge next to the bubble.
+
+### Why state is written to `os.tmpdir()`
+
+If request and error records lived in process memory, history would be erased on
+every restart and the overlay would come up empty. So the records are carried
+across restarts in a file.
+
+The file is **not written into the project tree**: every write triggered the
+watcher and restarted the server, which set up a self-feeding loop (restart →
+startup warning → write → restart). Instead, the file is written to
+`os.tmpdir()/jskelet-devtools-<hash of the project root>.json`; thanks to the
+hash, multiple JSkelet projects on the same machine do not overwrite each
+other's records.
+
+The write happens after 300 ms of silence rather than on every request, and its
+failure does not stop the dev flow. At most 50 requests and 50 errors are kept.
+
+The panel's open/closed state, its active tab and the browser error log are kept
+in tab memory (`sessionStorage`), so after a reload the panel comes back with
+the same tab.
+
+## Report page
+
+The bubble shows the current state; the report page produces a view of the whole
+site. The address:
+
+```
+http://localhost:3000/__jskelet/dev/report
+```
+
+(Or wherever `brand.devBasePath` points, if you changed it.)
+
+Its contents:
+
+- **Pages:** the Web Vitals measurements of every visited page, resource count
+  and total bytes (broken down by type), island status (how many are ready, and
+  their names), API calls made in the browser, and the size/duration/cache
+  status of the SSR output. Pages that were never visited but were warmed are
+  listed too: the SSR side is known, the client measurements stay empty.
+- **Server API calls:** outbound `fetch` calls made during SSR — URL, host,
+  method, status, duration, bytes. `globalThis.fetch` is only wrapped in
+  development; the production path is left untouched. Requests to our own server
+  (warming, health check) do not count as API calls.
+- **Build output:** the raw/gzip/brotli size of every asset in the manifest, and
+  chunk analysis from esbuild's metafile — the size of each output, which
+  sources it is made of, which chunks it imports. Sources are reduced to
+  readable groups (package name or parent folder), so the question "which
+  library accounts for 40 kB of this chunk" can be answered.
+- **HTML cache:** entry count and a dump (key, bytes, status, whether it is
+  stale, how many seconds until it expires, which encodings are stored).
+- **Prewarm:** the full result of the last round.
+- **Request and error logs.**
+
+Measurements live on the server, not in the browser tab; resetting is done from
+the server as well. Size calculations are not repeated unless the file changed.
+
+The report layer is only loaded in development and never enters the production
+output.
+
+## Dev endpoints
+
+Under `brand.devBasePath` (default `/__jskelet/dev`):
+
+| Path | Method | Job |
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| `/overlay.js` | GET | The overlay script |
+| `/logo.png` | GET | The overlay logo |
+| `/ws` | GET (upgrade) | Live channel: statistics, live reload and CSS hot-swap events |
+| `/events` | GET | SSE: the fallback event stream, used only when WebSocket cannot be established |
+| `/stats` | GET | Current statistics; the data endpoint of that same fallback |
+| `/report` | GET | The report page (HTML) |
+| `/report.js` | GET | The report page's script |
+| `/report/data` | GET | The report's single data source (JSON) |
+| `/vitals` | POST | The measurement bundle sent by the overlay |
+| `/report/clear` | POST | Resets page measurements and server API records |
+| `/prewarm` | POST | Triggers warming manually. If the body has `paths`, only those paths; 409 if warming is already running. |
+| `/clear` | POST | Resets the request and error logs |
+
+All of these endpoints are mounted by `mountDevtools()` only when
+`NODE_ENV=development`; thanks to the dynamic import, nothing is loaded into the
+production process.
+
+## Dev gate — `DEV_TOKEN`
+
+To hide an environment that is not public yet: while `DEV_TOKEN` is set,
+**every** request without the token gets a 404.
+
+```bash
+DEV_TOKEN=a-long-random-string npm start
+```
+
+Access:
+
+```
+https://staging.example.com/?dev_token=a-long-random-string
+```
+
+Behavior:
+
+- **404, not 403.** A 403 confirms the environment exists; a 404 acts as if it
+  never did.
+- Once the token arrives as a query parameter, it is written to a cookie
+  (`Path=/`, `SameSite=Lax`, 14 days), so sharing the link is enough. The cookie
+  and parameter name is `brand.devTokenCookie` (default `dev_token`).
+- The **exact** paths in the `devGateBypass` list are open under all conditions.
+  Default: `/api/healthcheck`, `/robots.txt`, `/sitemap.xml`,
+  `/site.webmanifest`, `/favicon.ico`. If your health check lives at a different
+  path, remember to add it to this list, otherwise your orchestrator will see a
+  404.
+- Without `DEV_TOKEN` the middleware is entirely disabled and costs nothing in
+  production.
+- Since warming makes requests to its own server, it carries the token as a
+  cookie; without it every page gets a 404 and the cache never fills up
+  ([06-caching.md](./06-caching.md)).
+
+In the middleware chain the gate sits after `headers` and **before**
+`redirects`: an environment that is not public yet should not leak even its
+redirect rules.
+
+## Differences between development and production
+
+| Topic | Development | Production |
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| EJS template cache | Off | On |
+| Manifest reading | On every request | Once |
+| Image manifest | On every call | Once |
+| Broken route module | Warn + skip | Throw |
+| Devtools and report | Mounted | Never loaded |
+| `globalThis.fetch` | Wrapped (measurement) | Untouched |
+| Prewarm concurrency | 1 | 4 |
+| Prewarm rate limit | 4 requests/second | Unlimited |
+| Prewarm delay | 3000 ms | 500 ms |
+| Missing icon warning | Emitted | Not emitted |
+| Precompress | Does not run in watch | Runs |
+| Image optimization | Does not run in watch | Runs |
+
+## What's next
+
+- Details of the build steps: [08-build.md](./08-build.md)
+- Going to production: [10-deployment.md](./10-deployment.md)
+- Reading and clearing the cache: [06-caching.md](./06-caching.md)