Built-in servers

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If you want to view files quickly while developing locally, then there are a number of built-in servers in various languages. Change to the directory with your files and then run:

Node (using http-server)

http-server

# or now
npx http-server

Note: this one is slightly different since this is a static server - only HTML, JS and CSS will be run.

Python 3

python -m http.server

PHP

php -S localhost:8000 // where 8000 is the port number