angular-dev-server

a simple express-based local development server for AngularJS projects

Install

Install using npm:

npm install -g angular-dev-server

Usage

When you start the server, it assumes a project structure that looks like this:

• app/
  • scripts/
    • controllers/
    • directives/
    • filters/
    • services/
    • app.js
  • views/
    • main.html
  • index.html
• public/
  • css/
  • img/
  • js/

Start the server:

angular-dev-server

Open your web browser to:

http://localhost:8787/

API Pass-through

Sometimes when you're developing locally you're also going to be running the backend REST API server. Thanks to CORS, any requests to the server might be blocked by your web browser. To prevent CORS blockage, angular-dev-server lets you pass in an API url and acts as a proxy and proxies requests to /api to the API server.

To use the API pass through run this:

angular-dev-server --api http://localhost:9999/

When you check http://localhost:8787/api/ a request will be passed through angular-dev-server to your REST API server.