May 2017
— I like how you can do it in one line with python :^)
Var express = require('express');var app = express();app.use(express.static('<PATH_TO_DIR>'));app.listen(1778);
— Haha was about to paste mine :P
— I used to use Vagrant + Virtualbox + ScotchBox to set up whole ubuntu server VMs
— A clusterfuck of virtual disks I had to migrate every time I wanted to use them on another machine
— ScotchBox?
— Granted, I only knew PHP, and I was not installing that crap on anything not a VM
— A Vagrant box for web development
— Https://box.scotch.io/
— Has nice sane defaults
— Python -m simplehttpserver 1778:^)
— Oh okay