lite-server

Lightweight development only node server that serves a web app, opens it in the browser, refreshes when html or javascript change, injects CSS changes using sockets, and has a fallback page when a route is not found.

Get Started

Serve the current folder and ./index.html

Serve from the current folder and open (browse to) the default file (usually index.html) in that folder.

lite-server

Serve the current folder and ./src/index.html

Serve from the current folder and open (browse to) the default file (usually index.html) in the src folder.

lite-server --open src

Serve and log all options

lite-server --verbose

Options

port

Sets the port to serve. Defaults to 3000.

lite-server --port 3000

open

Which folder to holds the index.html. Defaults to ./

lite-server --open src

files

Array of file patterns to watch. Defaults to all html, css and js.

lite-server --files '/**/*.html' '/**/*.css' '/**/*.js'

baseDir

Folder (or collection of folders) to serve. Defaults to ./. Use this when you want to specify which folders you want to serve assets from.

lite-server --baseDir './'

or to serve from multiple folders

lite-server --baseDir ./src --baseDir ./

proxy

Optionally proxy a server for the /api endpoint. Maps /api requests to otherserver:otherport/api.

lite-server --proxy http://something.local:8000/