FWIW, I was wanting to play with native modules locally using files loaded directly in browser instead of a local Node instance. That's about impossible in Chr

FWIW, I was wanting to play with native modules locally using files loaded directly in browser instead of a local Node instance. That's about impossible in Chrome (in my experience and as per SO answers) and trivially easy in Safari. Develop menu / Disable Cross-Origin Restrictions Not that spinning up node is really any slower when you take into account auto-reload capabilities.