diff --git a/origin_ui/src/README.md b/origin_ui/src/README.md
index 924c0f424..d3f24dd71 100644
--- a/origin_ui/src/README.md
+++ b/origin_ui/src/README.md
@@ -4,6 +4,40 @@ This ui is generated with Next.js.
 
 ## Development
 
+### Local
+
+In production builds the website is compiled and included with the code. This step 
+takes a couple minutes and is not well suited for development. Since the website 
+sits on top of the api the best way to develop just the website is to run the api
+and the website separately and then use nginx to make them come from the same host
+as they would in production. 
+
+#### To run the api:
+
+```shell
+# From repo root
+goreleaser --clean --snapshot
+docker run --rm -it -p 8444:8444 -w /app -v $PWD/dist/pelican_linux_arm64/:/app pelican-dev /bin/bash
+```
+
+```shell
+# Inside the container
+cp pelican osdf
+./osdf origin serve -f https://osg-htc.org -v /tmp/stash/:/test
+```
+
+#### To run the website and the reverse proxy:
+
+First make sure that the ports are correct in `dev/nginx.conf` so that they point to
+the website and the api as expected. Then run the following command.
+
+```shell
+sh dev/run.sh
+npm run dev
+```
+
+### Docker
+
 ```shell
 docker build -t origin-ui .
 ```
diff --git a/origin_ui/src/dev/nginx.conf b/origin_ui/src/dev/nginx.conf
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..97d4139fe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/origin_ui/src/dev/nginx.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+user  nginx;
+worker_processes  auto;  ## Default: 1
+worker_rlimit_nofile 8192;
+
+error_log  /var/log/nginx/error.log notice;
+pid        /var/run/nginx.pid;
+
+events {
+  worker_connections  4096;  ## Default: 1024
+}
+
+http {
+    include    /etc/nginx/mime.types;
+    default_type  application/octet-stream;
+
+    index    index.html index.htm index.php;
+
+    server {
+        listen              8443;
+
+        location /api {
+            proxy_read_timeout 300s;
+            proxy_connect_timeout 10s;
+            proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
+            proxy_pass https://host.docker.internal:8444;
+        }
+
+        location /view {
+            proxy_read_timeout 300s;
+            proxy_connect_timeout 10s;
+            proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
+            proxy_pass http://host.docker.internal:3001;
+        }
+
+        gzip on;
+        gzip_types text/plain text/css application/json application/javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/origin_ui/src/dev/run.sh b/origin_ui/src/dev/run.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8806c3253
--- /dev/null
+++ b/origin_ui/src/dev/run.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+docker restart pelican-dev-proxy
+docker run --name pelican-dev-proxy -it -p 8443:8443 -v $0/../nginx.conf:/etc/nginx/nginx.conf:ro -d nginx