Instructions for running on localhost, or a server on my LAN? about matrix HOT 2 CLOSED

Thanks for clarifying that. 😊👍

If I may make a suggestion, I think it would be very helpful if you included that "for instance" bit with the python command in your readme as well.

All of the open source web apps I've worked with so far came with their own dedicated launch commands, like npm start, yarn start, etc., so the idea that I could just throw this code into a directory, fire up any ol' web server daemon there, and point my browser directly at localhost didn't occur to me. I think I was expecting something more complicated. 😅

If you hadn't added that bit at the end, I think I'd still be scratching my head, though I'm probably a lot less savvy than most folks who find this repo and decide to play with it, so I dunno. 🤷‍♂️

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That's fair @JamesDBartlett3, I've now added a clarification to the readme file:

This project runs right in the web browser; you can serve it from any HTTP/HTTPS server with no additional setup.

For instance, when I test it locally on my Mac, I just cd to my git repo and python3 -m http.server, like a chump. GitHub Pages is honestly more stringent than the environment I locally host it in, with its CORS and its relative path shenanigans. 😁

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