generator-genproject2

#GenProject 2!

What we have here is some basic scaffolding for a simple front-end app (an index.html that links to a style.css file and a script.js file). You may have done something like this before with a shell script that you wrote yourself.

There is now also a file called server.js. If you run that file with node server.js, you will run a very simple HTTP server from the current directory. Requests to http://localhost:3000 will arrive at this server, which will respond by sending up the index.html or any other requested file.

So all you need to do is:

• run node server.js.
• open a new tab in the terminal with cmd+t (you need to leave the server running in the original tab).
• open the project in sublime, and edit your html, css and js files as normal.
• every time you want to check out your changes, just refresh http://localhost:3000 in your browser.

Note that you cannot run two of these servers at the same time. If you try to do that, you might get an error that looks like Error: listen EADDRINUSE :::3000. Just cancel one of them by entering ctrl+c in that tab, then try again.