Installing miniserve on macOS

In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing miniserve on macOS.

Step 1: Install Homebrew

Homebrew is a package manager that makes it easy to install and manage software on macOS. If you don’t have Homebrew installed on your Mac, you can do so by following these steps:

1. Open the Terminal app on your Mac by searching for it in Spotlight or by navigating to the Applications > Utilities folder.
2. In the Terminal window, paste the following command and press Enter:

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

This will download and install Homebrew on your Mac.

Step 2: Install miniserve

Once you have Homebrew installed on your Mac, you can install miniserve by following these steps:

1. Open the Terminal app on your Mac.
2. In the Terminal window, paste the following command and press Enter:

brew install miniserve

This will download and install miniserve on your Mac.

Step 3: Verify installation

After the installation process is complete, you can verify that miniserve is installed on your Mac by running the following command in the Terminal window:

miniserve --version

This should display the version of miniserve that you have installed on your Mac.

Step 4: Start using miniserve

To use miniserve, navigate to the directory that you want to serve using the cd command, then run the following command in the Terminal window:

miniserve

This will start miniserve and make the contents of the current directory available through a web interface. Open a web browser on your Mac and point it to http://localhost:8080 to access the miniserve interface.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed miniserve on your macOS machine.

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