Tag: server

Serving WebAssembly Files with a Development Web Server

WebAssembly is a relatively recent feature of javascript and modern browsers; as a result, many web servers don’t recognize files the “.wasm” extension as Web Assembly binary files. Here’s how to configure this file type for web servers in the development environment.

Running a Standalone HTTP Server

When developing and testing a new HTML page, it can be accessed locally by opening it as a file from a browser. But Chrome and Firefox will issue an error if the Javascript in the page tries to make an AJAX call (due to enforcement of browser sandbox security). To work around this there are