Live Server
A simple development http server with live reload capability. (by tapio)
Babel (Formerly 6to5)
🐠 Babel is a compiler for writing next generation JavaScript. (by babel)
| Live Server | Babel (Formerly 6to5) | |
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| 35 | 65 | |
| 4,563 | 43,908 | |
| 0.0% | 0.0% | |
| 0.0 | 9.7 | |
| about 2 years ago | 5 days ago | |
| JavaScript | TypeScript | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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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.
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.
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.
Babel (Formerly 6to5)
Posts with mentions or reviews of Babel (Formerly 6to5).
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2026-02-20.
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What's new in JavaScript Linter 🐊Putout v42
Babel also already supports it, so the time is come 🤷♂️.
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Less is safer: how Obsidian reduces the risk of supply chain attacks
https://github.com/babel/babel
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FinalizationRegistry for Efficient Memory Cleanup
Babel: FinalizationRegistry Examples
- Estrutura do projeto React para escalar: decomposition, camadas e hierarquia
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Fixing Jest import failure
> 4 | import someConfig from '../config/SomeConfigs.json' with { type: 'json' }; | ^ 5 | 6 | /** Add @babel/plugin-syntax-import-attributes (https://github.com/babel/babel/tree/main/packages/babel-plugin-syntax-import-attributes) to the 'plugins' section of your Babel config to enable parsing. If you already added the plugin for this syntax to your config, it's possible that your config isn't being loaded. You can re-run Babel with the BABEL_SHOW_CONFIG_FOR environment variable to show the loaded configuration:
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Top 20 Javascript Libraries on Github
Repository: Babel
- Do You Need an SBOM?
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What is an Abstract Syntax Tree in Programming?
GitHub | Website
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Mastering Jest Configuration for React TypeScript Projects with Vite: A Step-by-Step Guide
node 'node_modules/.bin/jest' '/Users/satparkash/code/test-app/src/A pp.test.tsx' -t 'App' FAIL src/App.test.tsx ● Test suite failed to run SyntaxError: /Users/satparkash/code/test-app/src/App.test.tsx: Support for the experimental syntax 'jsx' isn't currently enabled (6:12): 4 | describe('App', () => { 5 | it('should work as expected', () => { > 6 | render(); | ^ 7 | }); 8 | }); 9 | Add @babel/preset-react (https://github.com/babel/babel/tree/main/packages/babel-preset-react) to the 'presets' section of your Babel config to enable transformation. If you want to leave it as-is, add @babel/plugin-syntax-jsx (https://github.com/babel/babel/tree/main/packages/babel-plugin-syntax-jsx) to the 'plugins' section to enable parsing. Test Suites: 1 failed, 1 total Tests: 0 total Snapshots: 0 total Time: 0.278 s Ran all test suites matching /\/Users\/satparkash\/code\/test-app\/src\/App.test.tsx/i with tests matching "App".
- Open source public fund experiment - One and a half years update
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Live Server and Babel (Formerly 6to5) you can also consider the following projects:
http-server - A simple, zero-configuration, command-line http server
Lebab - Turn your ES5 code into readable ES6. Lebab does the opposite of what Babel does.
npm-home - Open the npm page, Yarn page, or GitHub repo of a package
Traceur compiler - Traceur is a JavaScript.next-to-JavaScript-of-today compiler
alex - Catch insensitive, inconsiderate writing
ESLint - Find and fix problems in your JavaScript code.