Three.js Cookbook

Setting up a local web server using Mongoose

If you would like to test your Three.js applications, then as described in the How to set up a local web server with Python recipe, you can run it in three different ways. If the first two approaches fail, you can always use a simple portable web server using Mongoose. This recipe will focus on the Mongoose approach.

Getting ready

Before you run Mongoose, you first have to download it. You can download Mongoose from https://code.google.com/p/mongoose/downloads/list.

How to do it...

1. The platform you are using will affect how you run Mongoose. If you're running Windows, you can just copy the downloaded file (an executable) to the folder from where you want to host your files from (for example, the directory ...