What's a good workflow for coding a frontend for a Java EE application?

The setup is Java EE on a Glassfish server running local on one machine and my frontend development setup running local on my machine, plus git for collaboration.

I'm doing frontend work (mostly CSS, JS and a little HTML) exclusively. So, i only need the browser-rendered HTML. Right now my colleague publishes the application on his local glassfish, grabs the rendered HTML from Firefox and pastes it into a seperate frontend folder in our git repository.

This seems to be a bad workflow.

I guess we could solve this by setting up a development server, but we don't have one, yet.

Is there a way to get the rendered HTML without me running all the Java tools (Eclipse, Java EE, Glassfish) on my machine?