Is a local web server necessary to code in Phaser

[callidus]

Is a local web server like cloud9 necessary to code in phaser? I heard about it recently but up until now i have simply been opening 

the canvas on my web browser and everything has been working fine. I dont use anything like cloud9 to run my code and havent had 

any problems. But even the phaser setup talks about downloading a local web server. So ultimately im confused, do we really need one, and if so why. I dont seem to have any problems just coding and opening it in my browser. 

[lewster32]

Unless you've changed your security settings browsers will tend to not be very happy with you loading assets. It's generally very easy these days to set up a web server, and if you plan to deploy to the web then you really should have a local server to ensure it works as intended.

[Chupup Games]

If you don't want to setup a local server on your own (for example with Xampp), 

then I recommend you use something like Brackets (http://brackets.io/) or

Netbeans. They come with their own build-in, ready to use local web servers,

where you can test your game with one click.

[callidus]

Thank you everyone for your answers and especially Chupup for your suggestion of using brackets. The program fixed my problems. 

[Nepoxx]

Just in case someone finds this thread and doesn't want to use Brackets, an easy solution is to use the mongoose server: https://code.google.com/p/mongoose/

It's a super lightweight executable file, you simply run it and it will run a webserver from the directory you executed it. It's very useful for many things