...If you make POST, PUT, PATCH or DELETE requests, changes will be automatically and safely saved to db.json using lowdb. You can use JSON Server to serve your HTML, JS and CSS, simply create a ./public directory or use --static to set a different static files directory. There are many ways to set up SSL in development. One simple way is to use hotel.
Node server for dynamic, fake JSON. When developing client-side applications, often either static JSON files, or an actual server, backend, datastore, or API, is used. Sometimes static files are too static, and sometimes an actual server is not available, not accessible, or too tedious to set up.