simple http server for HTML5/JS dev

Using a Mac or Linux
and you are developing HTML or JavaScript stuff?

Guess you have often wondered how to open a simple http server at the current location in the terminal?

Here is a one-liner that requires Python.
Execute in the Shell:

python -m SimpleHTTPServer

That will start a small http server on port 8000.
You may also specify a custom port at the end if you want.

python -m SimpleHTTPServer [port]

As often, I had a Ruby script for that as well. It was simple but this one-liner is really a killer.

PS.:
According to Stackoverflow this is not working in Python 3. Instead you should write:

python -m http.server

Have not tested this however...