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dev-server
Serving static files and directory indexes for you
Quick usage
$ npx dev-server
Install
$ npm install dev-server -g
Run
$ DEV_SERVER_PORT=4000 DEV_SERVER_ROOT=. dev-server
Environment Variables
DEV_SERVER_PORT— port to listen, default 4000DEV_SERVER_ROOT— root directory
Special files
File dev-server-hooks.js or .dev-server-hooks.js is loaded
on start and called with express app instance
FAQs
dev-server serve static files and directories for you.
The npm package dev-server receives a total of 64 weekly downloads. As such, dev-server popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that dev-server demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
Package last updated on 13 Apr 2021
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