A few different ways to serve static files in a directory on the fly for development.

IIS Express

C:> “C:Program Files (x86)IIS Expressiisexpress.exe” /path:C:MyWeb /port:8000

NodeJS

$ npm install -g http-server    
$ http-server -p 8000

PHP

$ php -S localhost:8000

Python 2

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

Python 3

$ python3 -m http.server 8000

Ruby

$ ruby -run -e httpd . -p 8000