Node equivalent of `python -m SimpleHTTPServer`?

Question

The existence of these modules suggests Node does not ship with an equivalent command:

• https://www.npmjs.org/package/simplehttpserver
• https://www.npmjs.org/package/simple-http-server

Burnley

Answer 1

There is a node package to do this.

$ npm install http-server -g
$ http-server

Node isn't aggressively batteries included like python so you have to install the pieces you want explicitly.

Arakawa

Note that you can use npx to perform a one-off invocation of a npm-hosted module without installing it: simply run $ npx http-server in the command line. – Perales