Learning D3.js 5 Mapping - Second Edition

A lightweight web server

Technically, most of the content we will craft can render directly in the browser without the use of a web server. However, we highly recommend you do not go ahead with this approach. Running a web server in your local development environment is extremely easy and provides several benefits:

• Geographic information, statistical data, and visualization code can be clearly separated into isolated files
• API calls can be stubbed and simulated, allowing easy integration into a full-stack application in the future
• It will prevent common mistakes when making Fetch calls to fetch geographic and statistical data (for example, the same-origin policy)

For our choice of web server and other tools in our toolbox, we will rely ...