If you ever need to serve your current directory via http for some reason, here's an NPM module solution 1~$ yarn global add serve And run this (it's automatically added to ~/.bashrc or equivalent on your shell): 1export PATH="$HOME/.yarn/bin:$HOME/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/.bin:$PATH" and run 1~$ serve …

1npm cache clean --force

NodeJS 14+ is needed in WSL. Usual installation via apt in Ubuntu doesn't work. This one works so far: 1curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_16.x | sudo -E bash - 2sudo apt-get install -y nodejs