2011-11-15

Running Local JavaScript Files In Chrome

By default, Google Chrome doesn’t allow you to run JavaScript from your filesystem. This means that if you are testing a JavaScript only app, lots of times you have to throw up a server simply to get around this restriction.

I recently discovered two Chrome command line flags that allow local JavaScript files to run from local HTML files:

--allow-file-access

--allow-file-access-from-files

Now you can test client-side apps without having to start up a server.