Building your own live-reloading web server Follow along and build your own automatically-refreshing web server, as shown here: This setup assumes you know and use Node and NPM You are editing HTML, CSS, and Javascript by hand, because you like it. You've had some of that hot-reloading goodness before, and you want it now, too. You don't feel like spending the weekend reading Webpack docs, so you decide that it should only take a few dozen lines of Javascript, at most, to roll your own.