Serve - a practical command line webserver
30th January 2014 | by Adam Beres-Deak | tool, webserver, command line
A few weeks ago I found a very amazing tool - it's called "serve".
What can it do for you?
Just simply serve you files over http:// protocol. Besides static files it supports jade templates, stylus and less. I usually use it, when I need an ad-hoc web server, like when downloading some sources from github and I want to check out the examples. They sometimes need a 'real web server', because of the limitations of the file:// protocol.
How to use it?
Install it the usual way with npm install -g serve and you should be fine. Then just simply cd into the directory which you want to be able to access from http://localhost and run serve. Default port is 3000 but, as many things, it's configurable. That's it.
For more documentation visit the github/serve project page.
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