I'm building my own custom game in the "part1.html" file in "basic_phaser_setup/public/tutorial"
I'm using http-server which is a super simple dev server. It's on npm as http-server and I installed it globally so i can run it in the command line. I may end up using my own express.js server setup but this will work for now. I have the phaser first game tutorial in a sub-directory of the public folder. I'm going to be working from that folder. once i run http-server in the command line from the project's directory, I then open http://localhost:8080/tutorial to view the project.
update: completed the basic tutorial, now i will be looking at and incorporating phaser ce examples, everything after this git commit will be different from the original tutorial.