Webservers. Are there free to use web servers?

Usually free web hosting has strict limitations. If you are just looking to develop an app before you invest in hosting and in the meantime need a server environment to run in, you can download and use a client like WAMP that will create a local server on your home network, only accessible to you. Or you can do the same thing in node.js entirely in JavaScript. The node.js courses on here will teach you how.

Good news, you don't need a free web server, you can just get one to work locally at your computer:

1. You just have to download and install mamp (https://www.mamp.info/en/ - works on both mac and pc).
2. Once it's installed you go to preferences, web server, select and select the folder in which you put your project files.

**I'm using webstorm to make everything even easier. I do recommend it, it's very good, unless you're just starting, than use something simpler so you can get used to how coding works. To configure webstorm to use a local server you'll need:

1. Go to file; settings; build, execution, deployment
2. Click on the plus sign to add a new local server
3. In the add server window choose a name (any will do) and set type to local or mounted folder, click ok
4. Now go to mapings and chose the same folder you chose on mamp

And you're ready to run! :D

Ps:. https://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/ (this is the link to webstorm, it has a monthly fee of $5.90 (which is not a lot if you ask me), but you can try it for free for 30 days :D.

I've had luck using AJAX offline on Mozilla. The way I understood it, Chrome doesn't like AJAX requests through local files, but Mozilla doesn't mind. I'm not entirely sure what limitations there are (if any) as I'm new to AJAX myself and my code was literally one line of jQuery. But it did work in Mozilla.