# Install local-web-server with npm

A lean, modular web server for rapid full-stack development. Version 5.4.0 via npm; verified 2024-08-01.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install npm:local-web-server
```

Additional install commands:

### Portable and language managers

- npm (100%):

```sh
npm install -g local-web-server
```

  Evidence: local npm package metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** npm:local-web-server
- **Package manager:** npm
- **Package manager page:** <https://www.npmjs.com/package/local-web-server>
- **Version:** 5.4.0
- **Source summary:** A lean, modular web server for rapid full-stack development
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/lwsjs/local-web-server#readme>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/lwsjs/local-web-server>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://github.com/lwsjs/local-web-server#readme>
- **License:** MIT
- **Source archive:** <https://registry.npmjs.org/local-web-server/-/local-web-server-5.4.0.tgz>
- **Issue tracker:** <https://github.com/lwsjs/local-web-server/issues>
- **Published:** 2024-08-01T08:46:19.834Z
- **Last updated:** 2024-08-01T08:46:19.834Z
- **Generated:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00

## Executables

- ws (cli)
- ws (alias)

## Dependencies

- current-module-paths
- lws
- lws-basic-auth
- lws-blacklist
- lws-body-parser
- lws-compress
- lws-conditional-get
- lws-cors
- lws-index
- lws-json
- lws-log
- lws-mime
- lws-range
- lws-request-monitor
- lws-rewrite
- lws-spa
- lws-static

## Build dependencies

- node-fetch
- test-runner

## Install behavior

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

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-07-08
- Package-manager version: 5.4.0
- Package-manager updated: 2024-08-01
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/lwsjs/local-web-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 local-web-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: 5.4.0
- **Version Count:** 149
- **Maintainers:** 75lb
- **Author:** Lloyd Brookes
- **Publisher:** 75lb
- **Engines:** Node: >=12.20
- **Integrity:** sha512-FkQT6ZuX+8ywks3Mol5nHtuKzf+Rhtp88PPJUkcU0fP6JzNi7s9a+dWRQ8WrCxlGe3vHij85A4R1uL4wRg06WA==
- **Shasum:** bacad05d7210d8faa84920d274182050e4515b4f
- **Unpacked Size:** 11,894
- **File Count:** 0
- **Created At:** 2013-06-04T11:55:09.084Z
- **Latest Published At:** 2024-08-01T08:46:19.834Z
- **Modified At:** 2024-08-01T08:46:20.053Z

## Other Package-Manager Records

- apk - ixwebsocket-dev - 11.4.6-r1: installed executable or alias match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: ixwebsocket-dev from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | WebSocket and HTTP client and server (development files) | https://github.com/machinezone/IXWebSocket
- apk - ixwebsocket-libs - 11.4.6-r1: installed executable or alias match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: ixwebsocket-libs from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | WebSocket and HTTP client and server (libraries) | https://github.com/machinezone/IXWebSocket
- apk - ws - 11.4.6-r1: installed executable or alias match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: ws from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | WebSocket and HTTP client and server | https://github.com/machinezone/IXWebSocket


## Related links

- [Text processing packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/text-processing-tools/) - Matched curated package taxonomy and local package facts.
- [lws](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/lws/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: backend, current, current-module-paths, dev, development.
- [live-server](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/live-server/) - Local metadata places this package in an adjacent workflow. Shared terms: auth, cors, development, end, front.
- [local-cors-proxy](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/local-cors-proxy/) - Package names and metadata indicate a similar tool family. Shared terms: cors, dev, local, proxy, request.

## Sources

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