# Install live-server with npm

simple development http server with live reload capability. Version 1.2.2 via npm; verified 2022-04-27.

## Install

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

Additional install commands:

### Portable and language managers

- npm (100%):

```sh
npm install -g live-server
```

  Evidence: local npm package metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** npm:live-server
- **Package manager:** npm
- **Package manager page:** <https://www.npmjs.com/package/live-server>
- **Version:** 1.2.2
- **Source summary:** simple development http server with live reload capability
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/tapio/live-server#readme>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/tapio/live-server>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://github.com/tapio/live-server#readme>
- **License:** MIT
- **Source archive:** <https://registry.npmjs.org/live-server/-/live-server-1.2.2.tgz>
- **Issue tracker:** <https://github.com/tapio/live-server/issues>
- **Published:** 2022-04-27T18:09:35.151Z
- **Last updated:** 2022-04-27T18:09:35.151Z
- **Generated:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00

## Executables

- live-server (cli)
- live-server (alias)

## Dependencies

- chokidar
- colors
- connect
- cors
- event-stream
- faye-websocket
- http-auth
- morgan
- object-assign
- opn
- proxy-middleware
- send
- serve-index

## Build dependencies

- eslint
- jshint
- mocha
- supertest

## Install behavior

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

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-07-08
- Package-manager version: 1.2.2
- Package-manager updated: 2022-04-27
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/tapio/live-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 live-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:** 0.6.0: 0.6.0, Latest: 1.2.2
- **Version Count:** 24
- **Maintainers:** tapio
- **Author:** Tapio Vierros
- **Publisher:** tapio
- **Engines:** Node: >=0.10.0
- **Integrity:** sha512-t28HXLjITRGoMSrCOv4eZ88viHaBVIjKjdI5PO92Vxlu+twbk6aE0t7dVIaz6ZWkjPilYFV6OSdMYl9ybN2B4w==
- **Shasum:** 20b4fe5c2ca886faa61813310e28680804f48dad
- **Unpacked Size:** 53,709
- **File Count:** 0
- **Created At:** 2012-12-14T14:19:09.463Z
- **Latest Published At:** 2022-04-27T18:09:35.151Z
- **Modified At:** 2026-01-15T06:12:06.749Z

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - live-server: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/li/live-server/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Related links

- [Networking and protocol packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/networking-protocol-tools/) - Matched curated package taxonomy and local package facts.
- [budo](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/budo/) - Local metadata places this package in an adjacent workflow. Shared terms: chokidar, connect, development, index, live.
- [webpack-dev-server](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/webpack-dev-server/) - Local metadata places this package in an adjacent workflow. Shared terms: chokidar, connect, http, index, middleware.
- [polyserve](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/polyserve/) - Local metadata places this package in an adjacent workflow. Shared terms: cors, http, middleware, opn, proxy.

## Sources

- Nucleus package database
- package-page enrichment
- package version freshness
- package relationship graph
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph