Http-server Alternatives

http-server reviews and mentions

• Simple Web Server
  9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Apr 2025

  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

• Need help setting up a remote depository using GitHub and VCS
  1 project | /r/webdev | 3 May 2023

  Do you run a Webserver during development, even if it is a simple dev-server like https://www.npmjs.com/package/http-server ?

• What is the simplest way to run an index.html file inside a server.js file using node.js
  1 project | /r/node | 29 Apr 2023

  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.

• Looking to host React Static Application on AWS S3 question on dependencies
  1 project | /r/learnprogramming | 5 Apr 2023

  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.

• 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.
  1 project | /r/angular | 1 Mar 2023

  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?
  5 projects | /r/golang | 12 Feb 2023
• 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?
  1 project | /r/cs50 | 8 Feb 2023
• Access variables from one file to another
  1 project | /r/learnjavascript | 31 Jan 2023

  Alternatively, a package like http-server is fast and easy to setup.

• JS script doesn’t want to load in my HTML file
  1 project | /r/programmation | 29 Jan 2023

  Set yourself inside the index folder and let's use http-server package to start a local server executing this:

• Let's build: DaisyUI and Tailwind CSS dashboard - part 1
  3 projects | dev.to | 20 Jan 2023

  Let’s go ahead and setup our http-server, for this we will be using http-server npm package to help us with this, this is useful for static sites where we do not want to setup a node server manually.

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