How npm start runs a server on port 8000

Question

How does npm  just start running a node server and where is all the configuration of that node server?

Answer 1

Hello @kartik,

If you will look at package.json file.

you will see something like this

 "start": "http-server -a localhost -p 8000"

This tells start a http-server at address of localhost on port 8000

Hope it helps!!

Thank You!!