diff --git a/gulpfile.js b/gulpfile.js
index 5141a2604489be93fc48e9675e6b09e3cf1e3627..f929437c96d7198fd4f8fd848f9f398be5371ef0 100644
--- a/gulpfile.js
+++ b/gulpfile.js
@@ -60,8 +60,8 @@ const args = yargs(hideBin(process.argv))
 	})
 	.options('sourcemapsincludecontent', {
 		type: 'boolean',
-		description: 'Add original js and css code to the source maps',
-		default: true,
+		description: 'Add original js and css code to the source maps. Loses file names and paths!',
+		default: false,
 	})
 	.options('debug', {
 		type: 'boolean',
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index dbb6f2df718b0a414cad0d7cee9e4102be297bb6..5dd7f88b2b9c5cc6b1ba54539486c20bb80d2a78 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -12,7 +12,8 @@
 		"compile": "sh compile.sh",
 		"build": "npx gulp all",
 		"build:debug": "npx gulp all --debug",
-		"build:release": "npx gulp all --minify --release"
+		"build:release": "npx gulp all --minify --release",
+		"serve": "npx http-server --port 6969 -c-1"
 	},
 	"license": "GPL-3.0-only",
 	"devDependencies": {
@@ -24,6 +25,7 @@
 		"eslint": "^8.0.0",
 		"eslint-plugin-jsdoc": "^46.0.0",
 		"eslint-plugin-sonarjs": "^0.23.0",
+		"http-server": "^14.1.1",
 		"ts-essentials": "^9.1.1",
 		"typescript": "^4.4.0"
 	},
diff --git a/serve.bat b/serve.bat
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..efc80fb5d864cf0aa07af348ab608742dd4f10b1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/serve.bat
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+@echo off
+:: run a Node based web server
+
+:: Set working directory
+pushd %~dp0
+SET BASEDIR=%~dp0
+
+:: check for node
+where /q node
+IF ERRORLEVEL 1 (
+	ECHO Node is required to run this http server.
+	exit /b 0
+)
+
+:: if the node_modules directory doesn't exist
+IF NOT EXIST .\node_modules\ (
+	ECHO Node available, but the required Node modules are not installed.
+	CHOICE /C YN /N /M "Would you like us to run 'npm install' to install Node modules, using ~120 MB of disk space [Y/N]?"
+	IF !errorlevel!==1 (
+		ECHO Installing Node modules...
+		CALL npm install
+	) ELSE (
+		ECHO Requirements not met, exiting...
+		exit /b 0
+	)
+)
+
+CALL npx http-server --port 6969 -c-1
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