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Run Local HTTP Server

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By Daniel Florido
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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

node
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