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How to launch a development web server

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Lloyd Brookes edited this page Jun 18, 2019 · 11 revisions

The default behaviour of local-web-server is to host the current working directory as a static web site.

  1. Install local-web-server to get the ws command.
$ npm install -g local-web-server
  1. Navigate into to your project
$ cd example-project
  1. Launch the webserver. By default it hosts your project as a static site.
$ ws
Listening on http://mba4.local:8000, http://127.0.0.1:8000, http://192.168.0.200:8000
  1. Navigating to one of the listed URLs will render a directory listing or your index.html, if that file exists.

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