Thomas Wilburn thomaswilburn

Local Hosting

Getting started

There are lots of ways to run a local host, which is necessary for testing AJAX (and useful when it comes to other tasks). This document covers setting up a simple Node-based HTTP server, but you may also choose to use one of the MAMP/WAMP applications to start a local Apache instance, or use Python's simple server.

Before doing anything else, install the latest version of NodeJS. Node is a runtime for desktop/server JavaScript (as opposed to running scripts in the browser), and many useful tools are built on top of it. If you find this helpful, you may also want to look into LESS, Grunt, and other Node-based development tools.

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	/**
	* Originally taken from:
	* https://raw.githubusercontent.com/GoogleChrome/devsummit/7ba921827a7cd080e31291275c0eda394ec21c9d/src/static/scripts/components/button.js
	*
	* This code enables the "material ripple" animation on buttons for the Chrome Dev Summit
	* site (https://developer.chrome.com/devsummit/). It finds all buttons on the page, and
	* adds an animation to them that plays on click. Button elements tend to look like this:
	*
	* <button data-embed="..." class="paper-button session__fab">
	* <div class="session__fab-inner">

	#include <stdio.h>
	//I really want to use exit(), so sue me.
	#include <stdlib.h>

	#define true 1
	#define false 0

	//machine states
	#define SOURCE 1 //regular code
	#define COMMENT 2 //currently in a comment

	#include <stdio.h>

	#define true 1
	#define false 0
	#define LEN 30

	void main()
	{
	int c, length, highest;
	int counts[LEN];

	/ROUTE CODE/

	server.route({
	method:"GET",
	path: "/books",
	handler: function(request, reply){
	fs.readFile("books.json", "utf8", function(err,data){
	var links =[];
	var list = JSON.parse(data);
	reply.view("book-list", {

	<!doctype html>
	<html>
	<head>
	<meta charset="utf-8">
	<title>Weekly JS Challenge #1</title>
	<style>
	.movie-container {
	display: flex;
	background: #333;
	max-width: 620px;

	/*
	A minimal evercookie implementation for window.name, cookies, localstorage, and IDB.
	Each get/set function takes a key/value pair as arguments. It also has a clear() method
	that will reset storage, which is useful during testing.
	*/

	// This module uses ES6 promises, which are shimmed in other browsers
	var Promise = require("es6-promise").Promise;

	/*

	# -- mode: ruby --
	# vi: set ft=ruby :
	Vagrant.configure(2) do \|config\|

	# This sets the VM that we want to use - in this case, a classic Ubuntu 12.01 box
	config.vm.box = "hashicorp/precise32"

	# This makes the VM available in your browser on port 8080, and on MySQL's default port
	config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 80, host: 8080 #HTTP
	config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 3306, host: 3306 #MySQL

	<!doctype html>
	<html>
	<head>
	<meta charset="utf8">
	<title>Making progress...</title>
	<style>
	body {
	width: 600px;
	margin: auto;
	max-width: 100%;