How to launch a development web server

This example will serve your working directory as a static web site.

1. Instal 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
Serving at http://mbp.local:8000, http://127.0.0.1:8000, http://192.168.0.100:8000

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

   Tip: iTerm users can cmd+click a server URL to open it in the default browser

Other use cases

1. Listen on a single host.

$ ws --hostname mbp.local
Serving at http://mbp.local:8000

2. Password-protect your server.

$ ws --auth.user lloyd --auth.pass secret
Serving at http://mbp.local:8000, http://127.0.0.1:8000, http://192.168.0.100:8000

3. Serve a Single Page Application