How to launch a development web server

The default behaviour of local-web-server is to host the current working directory as a static web site.

1. Install local-web-server to get the ws command.

$ npm install -g local-web-server

2. Navigate into to your project

$ cd example-project

3. Launch the webserver. By default it hosts your project as a static site.

$ ws
Listening on http://mba4.local:8000, http://127.0.0.1:8000, http://192.168.0.200:8000

4. Navigating to one of the listed URLs will render a directory listing or your index.html, if that file exists.

See also

• How to serve static files