Use Http-server to open a local server

Objective

In the writing front page, often in the browser run HTML page, directly open from the local folder is generally a file protocol, when the code exists http or https the link, the HTML page will not open normally, in order to resolve this situation, you need to open a local server locally.
This article is node.js in the use of http-server , open Local services, the steps are as follows:

1 Downloads node.js

Website address: https://nodejs.org
After the download is complete, enter the command at the command line $ node -v and $ npm -v check the version to verify that the installation was successful.

2 Downloads http-server

In Terminal input:
$ npm install http-server -g

3 Open http-serverService

The terminal enters the destination folder and then enters the terminal:

$ http-serverStarting up http-server, serving ./Available on:  http://127.0.0.1:8080  http://192.168.8.196:8080Hit CTRL-C to stop the server

4 Close http-serverService

Press the shortcut keyCTRL-C
The terminal shows ^Chttp-server stopped. that the service was turned off successfully.

Use Http-server to open a local server