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How to preview a static site?

With Ruby on Rails I can run rails s -p 3000 and preview my site at localhost:3000.

With React I can run npm start and view the site at localhost:8080.

What if I just have html and CSS files, how do I preview that?

Solution

  • On OSX, you can run a simple web server from any directory using this command:

    python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

    Then, you can hit the directory in your browser by going to http://localhost:8000/path/to/file.html