Run Local HTTP Server
If you want to do a quick development test with some HTML and some JavaScript a good solution is to fire up a HTTP server for local development testing. You can run/install this in the folder your working on
Run HTTP server without installing it:
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npx http-server
Install HTTP server
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npm install http-server
Or using homebrew on a mac
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brew install http-server
Good for serving up simple html pages
Run / Start HTTP Server
First create your folder where you want to run your HTTP server. In this folder will contain all your HTML and JS files.
- Add your HTML
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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
<title>Document</title>
<script src="myscript.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<h1>my title</h1>
</body>
</html>
- Add your JS
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document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function (event) {
console.log("dom loaded");
});
- Run your server and start testing code.
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http-server
Dependencies
Node js
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