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35,526 PointsHow to do all this on a local machine?
Actually, I have everything installed.
- Node.js is installed
- The Project files downloaded.
And I'm running a Windows Machine.
Using the Powershell as the command line for Node.js
So I was wondering, how can I open files in the browser as done in the video through workspaces?What if I want to do it locally. With all the local tools. Without Workspaces. How would I do that? thank you for your time.
4 Answers
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Duy Khanh
Courses Plus Student 4,911 Pointsrun in local its really easy . but i recommend reading the nodejs basic in w3school , it's really easy to know how its working . Belive me , it the second time i replay video again and match what teacher doing in w3school and note it to my file and now i really remmember and know what i learned . ;) Have fun :D
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Zack Lee
Courses Plus Student 17,662 PointsYou need to run a local server from the project directory...not sure how to do it on windows. But you could use an npm module like httpServer, or use a dev tool like gulp or webpack to run a server.
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35,526 PointsOh, thank you for your time, Zack Lee. Actually, I'm looking forward to getting a more detailed solution, any resource for that? tnx.
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Zack Lee
Courses Plus Student 17,662 PointsNafis Fuad there is a course on gulp in one of the javascript tracks. its a great dev tool and is really powerful, but requires a lot of setup.
http-server docs can be found here: https://www.npmjs.com/package/http-server install globally this is a much simpler solution. you can run the command: http-server [path] where path is a path to the directory you wish to pull from.
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35,526 PointsOh, thank you, Duy Khanh. I'm gonna try it right away.
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John Collins
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 28,593 PointsI am using IntelliJ IDEA. It is very powerful and has a "terminal" feature (node.js). This allows you to run the server through the terminal.