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<p>I often found myself working with folks who had limited back-end development knowledge.</p>

<p>Regularly these folks would complain about the difficulties of setting up a web server, such as apache or nginx, to test front-end code locally.</p>

<p>I spent roughly 30 minutes and wrote the first draft of a file server written for the sole purpose of locally testing.</p>

<p>The current version is under 30 lines of code (&lt;80 if you count tests), allows the port to be changed via an environment variable, and will launch the site in the web browser.</p>

<p>This is by far the coolest tiny utility I have written, and while it certainly does not compete with something like nginx, it&rsquo;s something you can just run and it works with literally zero configuration.</p>

<p><strong><em>written on 2017-04-13</em></strong></p>

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