# Install lite-server with npm

Lightweight development node server for serving a web app, providing a fallback for browser history API, loading in the browser, and injecting scripts on the fly. Version 2.6.1 via npm; verified 2020-11-11.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install npm:lite-server
```

Additional install commands:

### Portable and language managers

- npm (100%):

```sh
npm install -g lite-server
```

  Evidence: local npm package metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** npm:lite-server
- **Package manager:** npm
- **Package manager page:** <https://www.npmjs.com/package/lite-server>
- **Version:** 2.6.1
- **Source summary:** Lightweight development node server for serving a web app, providing a fallback for browser history API, loading in the browser, and injecting scripts on the fly.
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/johnpapa/lite-server#readme>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/johnpapa/lite-server>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://github.com/johnpapa/lite-server#readme>
- **License:** MIT
- **Source archive:** <https://registry.npmjs.org/lite-server/-/lite-server-2.6.1.tgz>
- **Issue tracker:** <https://github.com/johnpapa/lite-server/issues>
- **Published:** 2020-11-11T14:58:24.240Z
- **Last updated:** 2020-11-11T14:58:24.240Z
- **Generated:** 2026-07-08T18:08:21+00:00

## Executables

- lite-server (cli)
- lite-server (alias)

## Dependencies

- browser-sync
- connect-history-api-fallback
- connect-logger
- lodash
- minimist

## Build dependencies

- eslint
- istanbul
- mocha
- mockery
- sinon

## Install behavior

- Post-install hook: not defined
- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-07-08
- Package-manager version: 2.6.1
- Package-manager updated: 2020-11-11
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/johnpapa/lite-server
- warning: The package-manager record has not been updated in over a year.
- info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available.

## Security Notes

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for lite-server. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.


## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** npm registry
- **Dist Tags:** Latest: 2.6.1
- **Version Count:** 24
- **Maintainers:** johnpapa
- **Publisher:** johnpapa
- **Integrity:** sha512-d3oyB/C8AU4EwYQHlLxcu6vTQDnCaLb81v1KKNYABmFS5oeJ11A+YxlqtpbTclID1AFddJfcB5klf0q98vYIMw==
- **Shasum:** 27281022c77c99673d0a820b998bc7e125cdbaa0
- **Unpacked Size:** 24,605
- **File Count:** 0
- **Created At:** 2013-09-24T08:45:37.621Z
- **Latest Published At:** 2020-11-11T14:58:24.240Z
- **Modified At:** 2025-10-13T17:09:30.494Z


## Related links

- [Networking and protocol packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/networking-protocol-tools/) - Matched curated package taxonomy and local package facts.
- [live-server](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/live-server/) - Local metadata places this package in an adjacent workflow. Shared terms: cli, connect, development, development-servers, http.
- [local-web-server](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/local-web-server/) - Local metadata places this package in an adjacent workflow. Shared terms: api, cli, development, development-servers, http.
- [browser-sync](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/browser-sync/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: api, browser, browser-sync, cli, connect.

## Sources

- Nucleus package database
- package-page enrichment
- package version freshness
- av.db category and tag curation
- package relationship graph
- cross-ecosystem install command graph