Does Angular need a web server to run? So would Angular work if I give browser a url of a local file?

Question

By this I mean I have read that Angular allows mock up data to be used so that RESTFul apis need not be wired up. I can think of a use case where a UX designer need only look a

Answer 1

If you need to just display data using an expression like {{mymessage}} inside a div, you don't need a web server.

But if you need to load template html files uing ngview, you need a web server- otherwise it will complain with following error.

Request cannot load file. Cross origin requests are only supported for protocol schemes: http, data, chrome, chrome-extension, https, chrome-extension-resource.

If laoding templates is needed for learning angularjs routing, I found a web server exe easy to use - HFS. So far it meets my requirements for learning AngularJS.

References

1. HFS:Introduction
2. HTTP File Server