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start http-server to serve a project folder:

http-server -a localhost -p 8000 -c-1 ./dist

For Angular1-2 project, use lite-server instead

Running the server in the background and run protractor test using that server:

http-server -a localhost -p 8000 -c-1 ./dist > /dev/null &
protractor protractor.conf.js

Note: the http-server will keep running in the background. To find and kill the task, run:

ps axl | grep node

and kill the process with

kill -9 TASK_ID