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Raphael MANSUY
Raphael MANSUY

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How to use live-server as a small development server

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Live-server

https://www.npmjs.com/package/live-server

Live-server is a small development server with live reload capability. Use it for "hacking" your HTML/JavaScript/CSS files, but do not to deploy the final site.

There are two reasons for using this:

AJAX requests don't work with the file:// protocol due to security restrictions, i.e. you need a server if your site fetches content through JavaScript. Having the page reload automatically after changes to files can accelerate development.

How To

Create a directory ./www

mkdir ./wwww
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Edit a simple HTML page such as index.html in the ./www directory 

<html>
  <header></header>
  <body>
    <h1>This is a simple test</h1>
  </body>
</html>
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Run the command live-server to expose the directory 

live-server ./www
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Maxime Guilbert •

Thanks! Really cool tool! :)

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Dimitris Chitas •

Clean and fast!

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Pawan Pawar •

Good post!