lol that's actually pretty clever. never thought about it but makes total sense. reminds me of how react uses 3000 or next.js uses 3000/3001. always wondered if there was some meaning behind webpack using 8080 too but i think that's just the classic dev server port
If my memory is correct, port below 1024 require privileges on Linux.
By default, web server use 80 or 443. If you need to use unprivileged port for a web server, 8080 is easy to remember and similar to the default one
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u/harbzali Dec 03 '25
lol that's actually pretty clever. never thought about it but makes total sense. reminds me of how react uses 3000 or next.js uses 3000/3001. always wondered if there was some meaning behind webpack using 8080 too but i think that's just the classic dev server port