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lived

jeffalo

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Quickly start a local development server for static pages.
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Quickly start a local development server for static pages.

Features

  • Quickly start a local web-server to host static files

  • Live reload when files are saved

    Live reload

  • Works great with Live Share

  • Imitate a GitHub pages environment

    • html file extension is not required
    • automatically route 404s to 404.html
  • Easily manage multiple servers

    Manage multiple servers

  • Multi-root workspace support

    Multiple workspace roots

Requirements

  • Visual Studio Code

Extension Settings

Coming soon

Changelog

0.4.4

  • Move typescript to regular dependencies

0.4.4

  • Supports live share
    • Servers get automatically shared (You may need to click allow)
  • Fixed bug with multiple servers running on the same folder

0.4.3

  • Fix path traversal (thank you @GarboMuffin !!)
  • Works on linux (maybe)

0.4.2

Revert experimental changes from 0.4.1 😅

0.4.1

Experimental release (vscodeignore node_modules?)

0.2.0 / 0.3.0 / 0.4.0

failed to publish a couple times

  • Live reload!!!
    • html pages will automatically reload if a html or js file was updated
    • when a css file is updated, the page will update without reloading 😲 🤯
    • in the future, there will be many options for this

0.1.0

  • Marketplace updates
  • Internal code updates to prepare for live reload

0.0.1

Initial release

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