XMLHttpRequest Origin null is not allowed Access-Control-Allow-Origin for file:/// to file:/// (Serverless)

Question

I\'m trying to create a website that can be downloaded and run locally by launching its index file.

All the files are local, no resources are used online.

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Answer 1

Launch chrome like so to bypass this restriction: open -a "/Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome" --args --allow-file-access-from-files.

Derived from Josh Lee's comment but I needed to specify the full path to Google Chrome so as to avoid having Google Chrome opening from my Windows partition (in Parallels).