Ok so I like to ssh into my desktop and work on my projects and I have nginx set up where I can hit whatever webserver i spin up on port 8080. With ring/jetty this works fine. But with pedestal clearly there's some setting or flag I need to cut on. can someone point me in the right direction? I assume it's allowed-origins and I gave it a vector with ["http://cybernest:8080"] but that of course didn't work.

Hi is there an equivalent of wrap-reload middleware from Ring for pedestal ?

Yes, take a look here. "run-dev". Also derefing your routes I believe will give you what you're after. http://pedestal.io/guides/developing-at-the-repl