Run a local web server with Python

serve.sh

#!/bin/bash

# enable job control
set -m

port="${1:-8000}";

# start server, in background
python -m http.server $port &

# get pid
echo "PID: $( pidof python )"

# wait for server to come up
while ! nc -z localhost $port; do sleep 0.1; done;

# open web page
open http://localhost:$port

# bring to foreground
fg %1