Live Server
A simple development http server with live reload capability. (by tapio)
pageres
Capture website screenshots (by sindresorhus)

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Live Server | pageres | |
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35 | 1 | |
4,489 | 9,717 | |
0.2% | 0.1% | |
0.0 | 3.4 | |
about 1 year ago | 3 months ago | |
JavaScript | TypeScript | |
MIT License | MIT License |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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.
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.
pageres
Posts with mentions or reviews of pageres.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-06.
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Node.js Packages and Resources
pageres - Capture website screenshots.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Live Server and pageres you can also consider the following projects:
http-server - a simple zero-configuration command-line http server
David - :eyeglasses: Node.js module that tells you when your package npm dependencies are out of date.
Babel (Formerly 6to5) - 🐠 Babel is a compiler for writing next generation JavaScript.
Kiss! - :hash: :wrench: Shareable agnostics templates (Keep It Stupid Simple) / Integrated with Atom IDE #cli #nodejs #atom
alex - Catch insensitive, inconsiderate writing
np - A better `npm publish`

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