Open the Terminal application on your Macbook
Using the command line navigate to the project folder
In the hypothetical example below the project folder is stored in Documents/FEWD/Demos/mapbox_example
On your command line you would do the following (do not type ‘$’, your text input on the command line should with cd):
$ cd Documents/FEWD/Demos/mapbox_example
Run python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000 to start the local server
Open your browser and navigate http://localhost:8000
At this point your project will be displayed in the browser and you will have successfully launched your project on a local server.
NOTE: To close the server press Ctrl-c to close the server when it is not in use