Run Local Node.JS Dependancies

From Command Line

Install dependency locally

npm install live-server

Create folder public with index.html and file called run-server.js. Here's the structure:

node_modules/
public/
   index.html
run-server.js

Content of run-server.js:

var liveServer = require("live-server");

var params = {
 port: 8181, // Set the server port. Defaults to 8080.
 host: "0.0.0.0", // Set the address to bind to
 root: "./public", // Set root directory that's being served. Defaults to cwd.
 open: true, // When false, it won't load your browser by default.
 logLevel: 2, // 0 = errors only, 1 = some, 2 = lots
};

liveServer.start(params);

in console run live-server

node run-server.js

or on Linux

node node_modules/.bin/live-server --open=public/

Using package.json

in console

npm init
npm install -D live-server
npm install --save cowsay

this will generate file package.json:

{
  "name": "test",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "",
  "main": "index.js",
  "scripts": {
    "test": "cowsay -b mooooooooo >> index.html && live-server --port=8085"
  },
  "author": "",
  "license": "ISC",
  "devDependencies": {
    "live-server": "^1.2.0"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "cowsay": "^1.2.1"
  }
}

to create index.html and run server

npm test

if you want to do clone a git repo and run in in live-server replace yellow line with:

"test": "git clone https://github.com/nikola-bodrozic/Bootstrap-Boilerplate-v3.3.7.git tb337 && live-server --watch=tb337 --open=tb337 --ignore=tb337/.git"

this will watch for file changes in tb337 folder but not in tb337/.git folder

another example

{
  "scripts": {
    "less-gen": "lessc -l public/css/style.less && lessc public/css/style.less public/css/style.css && exit 0",
    "lint-css": "csslint --ignore=ids,order-alphabetical  public/css && exit 0",
    "lint-js": "eslint public/js && exit 0",
    "test": "node run-w3cvalid.js && npm run less-gen && npm run lint-css && npm run lint-js && echo \"Tests finished\" && exit 0",
    "start": "node run-server.js"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "csslint": "^1.0.5",
    "html-validator": "^2.2.3",
    "less": "^3.0.0-alpha.3",
    "live-server": "^1.2.0"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "eslint": "^4.10.0"
  }
}

Inside script.test and script.start we can run js files.