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Sunday, 10 May, 2020

Many static site generators like Hugo have a built in dev web server. If you are just building some html with css, and need a simple solution to serve the files from any folder, you have a few solutions. See a couple of options:

Node.js users can install and run http-server:

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npm install -g http-server
cd /path/to/my/working/folder
http-server --help
http-server

Visit http://localhost:8080 and look at the help to change the port.

Python 3 users can run:

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python -m http.server 8080

Or with php:

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php -S localhost:8080

Then if you use zsh put it in a function in your ~/.zshrc:

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function serve-it (){
  php -S localhost:8080
}