Use home network for learning browser-server communcation

Question

I'm really new to html, css, javascript and all kind of web development. After I coded my first own website, I'd like to play a little with communcation between the browser and a server.

I'd like to be able to access a website hosted on my PC (using my PC as "Web" server) over my home network (my router) so that I can load and use it for example on my smartphone. There's no need for it being accessible over the internet, I only want to use it at home when being connected to my WiFi.

Is that possible?

Answer 1

You can very simply build your own server using Node.js and Express.js.

Here is a simple snippet to create a server on port 8001 on your PC.

const express = require("express");

const app = express();
app.listen(8001, () => {
      console.log("Listening on port 8001");
});

After that, you start building routes, middleware, and static files for your server. More info can be found here and here.