The easiest way to start your Local Webserver with Node.js

On client-side development, it's often needed to quickly check or prove some script behavior in separate environment, so it's always good to have an extremely fast way yo launch your index.html on local web server.

npm http-server

http-server is a simple, zero-configuration command-line http server. It is powerful enough for production usage, but it's simple and hackable enough to be used for testing, local development, and learning.

---- ### Installing globally Instalation via `npm`: ``` npm install http-server -g ``` This will install `http-server` globally, so that it may be run from the command line. ---- ### Run from command line Add the following script into your *project.json* file: ``` "scripts": { "start": "http-server -a localhost -p 8000" } ``` That's it, run from command line in your project `root`: ``` npm start ``` If everything went fine, you'll see the following output: ``` Starting up http-server, serving ./ Available on: http://localhost:8000 Hit CTRL-C to stop the server... ``` ---- ### Miscellaneous It's not possible to specify dependencies as "global" from a *package.json*. So, you could automate it and have `http-server` installed through `preinstall` script. > preinstall: Run BEFORE the package is installed. So, following line in scripts might help ya: ``` "preinstall": "npm install http-server -g" ``` ---- ## see Also * [Pair your Atom editor with Cmder console](http://bloomlab.blogspot.com.ee/2016/08/pair-your-atom-editor-with-cmder-console.html) * [Boost your web development speed with LiveReload](http://bloomlab.blogspot.com.ee/2016/04/boost-your-web-development-speed-with.html) * [Catch JS breakpoints in IDEA](http://bloomlab.blogspot.com.ee/2016/06/catch-js-breakpoints-in-idea.html) * [Pair your Atom editor with Cmder console](http://bloomlab.blogspot.com.ee/2016/08/pair-your-atom-editor-with-cmder-console.html) * [NPM http-server](https://www.npmjs.com/package/http-server) * [NPM scripts](https://docs.npmjs.com/misc/scripts) * [NPM local-web-server](https://www.npmjs.com/package/local-web-server)