Preview local html on browser

per live-server readme:

AJAX requests don’t work with the file:// protocol due to security restrictions, i.e. you need a server if your site fetches content through JavaScript.

1. install live-server globally

npm install -g live-server

2. on project directory: npx live-server

3. view at localhost:8080

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I recently found a seemingly better alternative: serve is more actively maintained, smaller, and looks prettier on terminal too. I installed it globally,

npm install -g serve

and simply run npx serve from inside my project directory. Sadly it doesn’t auto-reload pages (watch changes) and doesn’t have much feature (which is a feature, right? I guess?). Nonetheless, it covers the basics for me.