http-server
a simple zero-configuration command-line http server (by http-party)
Live Server
A simple development http server with live reload capability. (by tapio)
| http-server | Live Server | |
|---|---|---|
| 64 | 35 | |
| 13,999 | 4,526 | |
| 0.2% | 0.0% | |
| 4.8 | 0.0 | |
| 26 days ago | over 1 year ago | |
| JavaScript | JavaScript | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
http-server
Posts with mentions or reviews of http-server.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-06-19.
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10 hands-on Docker projects that’ll actually level up your skills not just hello-world junk
A simple static website served via Docker using Nginx or http-server. Nothing fancy just HTML, CSS, maybe a splash of JS.
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Simple Web Server
npx http-server (keep the "r" at the end, it's more up-to-date than the http-serve package)
https://github.com/http-party/http-server
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Need help setting up a remote depository using GitHub and VCS
Do you run a Webserver during development, even if it is a simple dev-server like https://www.npmjs.com/package/http-server ?
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What is the simplest way to run an index.html file inside a server.js file using node.js
I mean, there are ones, like https://github.com/http-party/http-server you can inspect that code, but basically, it’s a job an nginx can do without any JS.
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Looking to host React Static Application on AWS S3 question on dependencies
Does the website work correctly when run locally without a server? If so, then it should be fine to be compiled and deployed. You can always check ahead of time by building your website and then running it with a CLI like http-server to replicate what S3 will do.
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Opened my angular project after a week to find it like that? (All the stuff i built doesn't appear anymore). Any Idea why ? (Note: in the extensions the "Angular Language Service" seems to have had an update). Opening from Chrome shows the html but not the rest of the code.
You can use https://www.npmjs.com/package/http-server but you need to build your app before with ng build then serve the generated bundle (be careful to environment file replacement in angular.json)
- What is the Go equivalent of Node http-server?
- When they run the http-server command in the codespace, is it an alias in the .bashrc file that executes something along the lines of 'sudo systemctl start apache2' after they configured the apache2 server? Or is there a much simpler aproach that I didn't take into consideration?
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Access variables from one file to another
Alternatively, a package like http-server is fast and easy to setup.
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JS script doesn’t want to load in my HTML file
Set yourself inside the index folder and let's use http-server package to start a local server executing this:
Live Server
Posts with mentions or reviews of Live Server.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-04-20.
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Show HN: A Standalone/GitHub CLI Extension to Preview GitHub Flavored Markdown
fwiw there are plenty of webserver cli's with hotreload capability (https://www.npmjs.com/package/live-server or npx serve + chokidar), this is definitely one of those things that can decomposed to single responsibility tools
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Live Server: fix `Live Reload is not possible without a head or body tag.`
Live Server extension depends on the github.com/tapio/live-server package.
- Rewriting my blog in plain HTML
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Lite 🚀 ApolloNvim Distro 2024
👉 Next, install the Live-server in Node.js using npm and live-server.
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Google OAuth2 with Fastify + TypeScript From Scratch
Now serve this basic page on port 4000 (You can use in-built Live Server if you are using Visual Studio Code OR You can use Live Server package)
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Newb question: Can I use Sveltekit without a server running nodejs?
It still uses some JavaScript inside the browser. Have you tried just pointing a web server at the build output (e.g. live-server)?
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Simplest way to run a website on your computer?
For example, PHP provides a builtin testing server; I think python has one too, and there are various options for nodejs, e.g. live-server.
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Dynamic update: IIS
live-server - npm
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Live Server plugin for vim/nvim
I made a plugin for vim/nvim that allows you to use Live Server for editing your html, css and js files with automatic reload on changes. It uses this: https://www.npmjs.com/package/live-server.
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Running a live server for simple HTML/CSS/JS development?
Could try https://github.com/tapio/live-server which you would run with the entry file being your html file. Just need to start it inside a terminal somewhere.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing http-server and Live Server you can also consider the following projects:
yo - CLI tool for running Yeoman generators
alex - Catch insensitive, inconsiderate writing
Babel (Formerly 6to5) - 🐠 Babel is a compiler for writing next generation JavaScript.
vtop - Wow such top. So stats. More better than regular top.