Next.js: Next export: making links and static folder work locally?

[sedubois]

After running next export and opening the out/index.html on my dev machine in the browser, the links won't work. E.g a link to /courses will point to file:///courses/.

Also, assets from the /static folder won't be linked properly either. E.g if there's an <img src='/static/bla.png'>, it will try to load it from file:///static/bla.png.

Is there any way to fix this within next.js to allow testing exports locally instead of needing to deploy every time?

[arunoda]

You don't need to deploy it. Just run a local HTTP server. Here's the simplest one:

python -m SimpleHTTPServer

Then you can access your app in http://localhost:8080

Serving the folder directory without a HTTP server is not a goal we need to go for.

[timneutkens]

You can also use serve -s (npm install -g serve) from ZEIT 👌