diff --git a/src/Web/gulpfile.js b/src/Web/gulpfile.js
index 666bfd82c1..6cb30777bf 100644
--- a/src/Web/gulpfile.js
+++ b/src/Web/gulpfile.js
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ var gulp = require('gulp'),
     uglify = require('gulp-uglify'),
     ghPages = require('gulp-gh-pages'),
     less = require('gulp-less'),
+    connect = require('gulp-connect'),
     ngAnnotate = require('gulp-ng-annotate'),
     preprocess = require('gulp-preprocess'),
     runSequence = require('run-sequence'),
@@ -324,3 +325,10 @@ gulp.task('deploy', ['dist'], function () {
     return gulp.src(paths.dist + '**/*')
         .pipe(ghPages({ cacheDir: paths.dist + '.publish' }));
 });
+
+gulp.task('serve', function () {
+    connect.server({
+        port: 4001,
+        root: ['wwwroot']
+    });
+});
diff --git a/src/Web/package.json b/src/Web/package.json
index 73143539ed..34c5299f87 100644
--- a/src/Web/package.json
+++ b/src/Web/package.json
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
     "gulp-preprocess": "2.0.0",
     "gulp-ng-annotate": "2.0.0",
     "gulp-ng-config": "1.3.1",
+    "gulp-connect": "5.0.0",
     "jshint": "2.9.2",
     "gulp-jshint": "2.0.1",
     "rimraf": "2.5.2",