Cannot open local file - Chrome: Not allowed to load local resource

Question

Test browser: Version of Chrome: 52.0.2743.116

It is a simple javascript that is to open an image file from local like \'C:\\002.jpg\'

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Answer 1

1) Open your terminal and type

npm install -g http-server

2) Go to the root folder that you want to serve you files and type:

http-server ./

3) Read the output of the terminal, something kinda http://localhost:8080 will appear.

Everything on there will be allowed to be got. Example:

background: url('http://localhost:8080/waw.png');