diff --git a/gulpfile.js b/gulpfile.js
index e2c90f8d..98c97f7c 100644
--- a/gulpfile.js
+++ b/gulpfile.js
@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ const fs = require('fs');
 const rimraf = require('rimraf');
 const cp = require('child_process');
 const os = require('os');
-const httpServer = require('http-server');
+const serveHandler = require('serve-handler');
+const http = require('http');
 const typedoc = require("gulp-typedoc");
 const CleanCSS = require('clean-css');
 const uncss = require('uncss');
@@ -831,8 +832,20 @@ const generateTestSamplesTask = function() {
 	fs.writeFileSync(path.join(__dirname, 'test/playground.generated/index.html'), index.join('\n'));
 };
 
+function createSimpleServer(rootDir, port) {
+	const server = http.createServer((request, response) => {
+		return serveHandler(request, response, {
+			public: rootDir
+		});
+	});
+
+	server.listen(port, '127.0.0.1', () => {
+		console.log(`Running at http://127.0.0.1:${port}`);
+	});
+}
+
 gulp.task('simpleserver', taskSeries(generateTestSamplesTask, function() {
-	httpServer.createServer({ root: '../', cache: 5 }).listen(8080);
-	httpServer.createServer({ root: '../', cache: 5 }).listen(8088);
-	console.log('LISTENING on 8080 and 8088');
+	const SERVER_ROOT = path.normalize(path.join(__dirname, '../'));
+	createSimpleServer(SERVER_ROOT, 8080);
+	createSimpleServer(SERVER_ROOT, 8088);
 }));
diff --git a/package-lock.json b/package-lock.json
index 8688cf2a..7fa31647 100644
--- a/package-lock.json
+++ b/package-lock.json
@@ -275,12 +275,6 @@
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+    "bytes": {
+      "version": "3.0.0",
+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/bytes/-/bytes-3.0.0.tgz",
+      "integrity": "sha1-0ygVQE1olpn4Wk6k+odV3ROpYEg=",
+      "dev": true
+    },
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       }
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+      "version": "0.5.2",
+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/content-disposition/-/content-disposition-0.5.2.tgz",
+      "integrity": "sha1-DPaLud318r55YcOoUXjLhdunjLQ=",
+      "dev": true
+    },
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-      "integrity": "sha512-fLf9l1hnwrHI2xn9mEDT7KIi22UDqA2jaCwyCbSUJh9a1V+LEUSL/JO/6TIz/QyuBURWUHrFL5Kg2TtO1bkkog==",
-      "dev": true,
-      "requires": {
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-        "mime": "^1.6.0",
-        "minimist": "^1.1.0",
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       "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/end-of-stream/-/end-of-stream-1.4.1.tgz",
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+      "version": "1.1.3",
+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/fast-url-parser/-/fast-url-parser-1.1.3.tgz",
+      "integrity": "sha1-9K8+qfNNiicc9YrSs3WfQx8LMY0=",
+      "dev": true,
+      "requires": {
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+      },
+      "dependencies": {
+        "punycode": {
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+          "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/punycode/-/punycode-1.4.1.tgz",
+          "integrity": "sha1-wNWmOycYgArY4esPpSachN1BhF4=",
+          "dev": true
+        }
+      }
+    },
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@@ -3008,23 +2930,6 @@
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+      "integrity": "sha1-NlQX3t5EQw0cEa9hAn+s8HS9/FM=",
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@@ -3927,6 +3821,39 @@
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diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 46892e2a..c1e17723 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
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