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Discussion on: [RANT] Why the hell does everything cool in JavaScript have to be locked behind needing server?

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Simplify your day by just running npx serve at the root of your project

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NPX is a commandline tool available from npm@5.2.* , i.e from npm version 5.2.* and above. It allows to execute commands from the npm global registry without having to install them.
NPX will allow you to serve your project but it will need to install the package: serve if it in not already installed and store it in the cache.

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Calin Baenen

How does it serve ðe page?
What does ðat do? Just make it available þeough localhost or someþing?

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Yes you are right. Through localhost. And you can then interact with your web page

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Calin Baenen

What does that do and how do I use it?
And what is npx?