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Node.js & JS Tutorial to Start HTTP Live Server With Hot Reload Using http-server & live-server
Feb 5, 2025
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uh hello guys welcome to this video so
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in this video I will show you two
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packages which are useful for uh making
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this HTTP server and serving your HTML
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CSS JavaScript files inside the browser
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with hot reload changes as well so let's
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suppose you are developing a web
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application and you want a live
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server so we have this written this
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simple HTML file here and side by side
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you'll see this output as well so as you
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make any sort of changes these changes
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will be reflected back so we are Simply
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Having This Server right here which is
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running on port number 4,000 so there
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are two packages essentially uh in
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nodejs if you want to I Will Show You
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comparison here the first package is
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simply
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http-server so if you go to npmjs.com uh
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just search for this package so it's a
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zero
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configuration package so you can even
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globally install this uh pack package
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inside your command line so whenever you
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are building any kind of application you
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can start a HTTP server inside a
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directory so the command is very simple
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here uh you can globally install this
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package npmi HTTP Das server and then
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you can add this flag here- G which is
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for Global so this is actually the
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command you can install this package so
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once this package is installed you can
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simply type this command wherever you
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are developing the application so so
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open the command line there and simply
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write HTTP server dasp and followed by
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the port number so which port number you
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want to use so you simply write like
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this so this will start this HTTP server
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on this uh port number so if you try to
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open uh Local Host
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4,000 you will see the you will see the
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output here of this HTML
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file and
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uh if you make any sort of change here
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uh let's suppose if
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I this obviously doesn't support hot
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reload because if you make changes you
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do need to reload the page so if I
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refresh it you will see the changes
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taken place but it's a handy way still
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if you want to start a simple HTTP
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server so this is actually a handy way
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so here you can write HTML CSS code as
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well so JavaScript code as well so you
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can see that
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so you can see that you can use it with
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any technology if you are building an
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HTML CSS we application or react angular
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as well you can just use this package
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the second package in comparison to this
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it has a additional
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feature with the hot odd reload so this
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package is also you can globally install
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the name of the package is live server
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so this is the name this is a command
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here so you install it globally as well
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so once installed globally you can
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simply type live server inside the
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directory wherever you are building your
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project so if you just type live server
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it will start the development server at
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Port number 8080 it will automatically
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open this you will see
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that and now if I make any sort of
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change here now it has the capability of
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H reload so as I make the change you
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will see it will automatically restart
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the application and the change will
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reflect so if I again make any sort of
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change
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here so this is a fully fleshed HTTP
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server with H or reload as well so as
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you make changes side by side you will
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see the result so these are the two
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packages essentially HTTP server and
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live server and if you want to change
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this port number so you can simply write
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Dash Das port and then you
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can just choose your own port number so
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this is the command here so you can pass
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this option Dash dashport and if you
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enter it you will see it will open this
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server at Port number 4,000 so in in
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this way you can change the port number
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as well so essentially these are the two
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packages in nodejs which supports uh if
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you want to open the HTTP server with
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hot reload as functionality as well so
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thank you very much for watching this
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video and also check out my website as
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