If you need to serve a bunch of local static files like html, css, js, images, videos, fonts, etc. over http (in a browser), lying somewhere in one of your filesystem directories, Python’s http.server module can get you up and running quickly instead of installing and setting up (configuring) a more sophisticated web server like […]
A lot of times we just want to quickly serve a directory full of static assets over a web server so that we could quickly do some testing in the browser. Instead of setting up a full blown web server like Apache or Nginx and configuring it accordingly, we could simply use the http-server Node.js […]
The most basic requirement while working on websites and web apps is the ability to see our results in a web browser. We do this by serving the local source code via a HTTP web server and then visiting http://localhost in our browser to see the results. Traditionally we’d install and configure web servers like […]