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How to Open HTML Files in Browser With Hot Reload Using a Python Built in HTTP Server
Jun 3, 2025
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uh hello guys welcome to this video So
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in this video I will show you a built-in
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uh HTTP development server of Python So
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if you have Python installed on your
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machine there is a built-in HTTP
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development server that you can actually
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run any file So let's suppose I create a
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simple index.html file which I need to
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run it inside the
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browser So Python does come with a
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built-in development server Now to run
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this file you go to the terminal and
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simply execute this command and just
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write here
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python-m you for this you need to have
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python installed so just check your
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version I running the latest version
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which is 3.10.5
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10.5 and then you just need to say
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python -
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m http dash server So python-m after
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that you simply write http dash server
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dots
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server So this is the command here So
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this will actually start the development
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server on localhost by default on this
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port number which is 8,000 So if you try
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to open
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this you will see
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that So by default you it will open your
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HTML file Here you will
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see So in this easy way you can open any
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HTML CSS or JavaScript any HTML file
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using the Python development local
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development server with hot auto reload
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So if you make any sort of changes here
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you will see it will hot auto reload If
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I add this you will see if I refresh it
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you will see that the changes will be
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reflected back I can add some CSS code
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here Let me make the background color to
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red So you can see we can even write
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JavaScript code here you can
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add So in this easy way this is the
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Python local development server For this
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you don't need did not have to install
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any package Just execute this command in
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the terminal and then it will load and
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open your HTML file right here So thank
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you very much for watching this video
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