# Check if http-server is installed
if ! [ -x "$(command -v http-server)" ]; then
# Install http-server if not installed
npm install -g http-server
fi
# Start the http-server and serve the current directory
http-server -p 8080 &
# Wait for the server to start
sleep 5
# Open the local file in Chrome
open -a "Google Chrome" http://localhost:8080/index.html
In this script,
http-server is started with the -p option to specify the port as 8080, and the current directory is served using http-server .. The URL for the local index.html file is then opened in Chrome using open.the
http-server will look for the index.html file in the folder where it is run. In the script, http-server . starts the server and serves the files in the current directory. So, the script is looking for an index.html file in the same folder where the script is run. When the URL http://localhost:8080/index.html is opened in Chrome, the browser will request the file from the local web server, and the server will return the content of the index.html file if it exists in the current directory.
