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Live preview & servers for VS Code

44 extensions we classified as Live preview & servers, ranked by Marketplace installs. Updated nightly.

ExtensionInstalls / downloads · 7d gain · rating

Launch a development local Server with live reload feature for static & dynamic pages

82,726,791+250,347 7d4.4 ★ (518)
2,959,125+16,758 7d5.0 ★ (5)

Hosts a local server in your workspace for you to preview your webpages on.

13,666,521+56,080 7d4.4 ★ (79)
2,081,617+25,684 7d5.0 ★ (2)

This allows you to open the current file in your default browser or application.

13,288,866+20,581 7d3.5 ★ (92)
68,915+506 7d—

Serve your Project with PHP

3,187,015+5,545 7d4.1 ★ (33)
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A better Live Server with instant updates, highlights and some PHP support.

3,086,712+20,588 7d4.6 ★ (58)
558,916+17,885 7d5.0 ★ (2)

Preview your HTML file with localhost server live-reloading enabled

1,655,653+3,522 7d3.6 ★ (23)
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A VSCode extension to fast open html file in browser

1,399,704+1,959 7d4.4 ★ (40)
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Live, side-by-side HTML preview in VS Code - for hand-written pages and AI-generated HTML reports alike

1,123,138+2,155 7d1.8 ★ (132)
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Preview Web Page on Web Server.

608,786+426 7d4.8 ★ (47)
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A GUI to open PHP/HTML/JS files in browser on http://localhost or file:/// scheme. Suitable for XAMPP.

581,185+970 7d4.4 ★ (21)
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Preview HTML file in browser

550,055+708 7d3.9 ★ (12)
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View html files in your default browser or specific browsers.

414,332+719 7d4.0 ★ (4)
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Opens HTML files in a browser of user's choice.

340,193+685 7d4.4 ★ (10)
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Provides a responsive mobile view for testing mobile view of your apps and websites directly form vs code.

305,550+1,216 7d5.0 ★ (5)
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Hosts current workspace with Express web server

200,390+252 7d4.5 ★ (6)
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This allows you to run the current folder as a website using the IIS Express web server

159,412+104 7d4.5 ★ (21)
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Preview Hyper Text Markup Language (.html) and Scalable Vector Graphics (.svg) files in VSCode

147,875+417 7d3.4 ★ (10)
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Live server to render html web page based on code changes with refresh

147,167+581 7d3.8 ★ (4)
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LiveReload plugin for VS Code

122,122+43 7d3.9 ★ (9)
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Launch a development local Server with live reload feature for static & dynamic pages & websocket

118,058+784 7d5.0 ★ (1)
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A VSCode extension to control ngrok from the command palette.

108,657+194 7d4.2 ★ (9)
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Edit and preview HTML documents in VS Code

105,969+85 7d4.6 ★ (21)
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104,290+246 7d3.0 ★ (2)
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Built-in browser for Visual Studio Code

91,920+379 7d4.5 ★ (14)
5,366+238 7d5.0 ★ (1)

Get instant previews of your UI components, directly in your IDE

85,841+146 7d2.8 ★ (13)
29,114+222 7d—

Integrate browser sync with VSCode to provide liveload

84,696+42 7d5.0 ★ (9)
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Realtime Preview HTML

84,582+122 7d2.7 ★ (15)
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Scan a QR Code to open your live server up in your mobile browser.

34,089+133 7d5.0 ★ (1)
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Opens an URL within VS Code editor.

17,906+218 7d5.0 ★ (1)
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Add html preview in vscode to avoid switching back and forth between browsers.

12,974+7 7d4.2 ★ (5)
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Dependency free native nodejs live preview server. Embedded live html preview. lightweight and ultra fast.

11,410+37 7d5.0 ★ (2)
14,759+40 7d—

快速运行HTML文件,支持内置浏览器、Edge、Chrome切换,在VS Code内实现独立窗口预览

10,034+169 7d—
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Opens PHP/HTML files in a browser via a local server

6,783+83 7d—
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Serve your static directory

6,540+3 7d5.0 ★ (2)
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An extension that lets you have chrome tabs in VS Code

5,750+6 7d2.0 ★ (1)
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Launch a development local Server with live reload feature for static & dynamic pages

5,378+77 7d5.0 ★ (1)
32,326+1,970 7d—

Use vscode builtin simple browser to preview VitePress pages.

4,156+10 7d5.0 ★ (1)
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Fast and simple HTTP server with hot reload

3,424+4 7d5.0 ★ (1)
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Create API Server with JSON files

2,018+2 7d5.0 ★ (1)
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A static Web Server for VS Code development environment.

1,5440 7d—
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Quickly start a local development server for static pages.

1,3720 7d4.3 ★ (3)
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Multi-file Live Preview extension for vscode.dev

1,309+5 7d—
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一个集成到VSCode中的简单web浏览器,方便访问web内容。

1,056+8 7d—
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