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srvd

Another Development Server

features

• serve directory of static files
• supports range requests
• controllable through environmental variables
• usage in JS and on the command line

basic usage

srvd

install

npm install -D srvd

advanced usage

in JavaScript

const srvd = require("srvd");

// note: all options are optional
const obj = srvd.serve({
  // whether to accept HTTP Range Requests to return partial files
  // default is true
  acceptRanges: true,

  // set debug to true to see increased logging messages like what port is being used
  // default is false
  debug: true,

  // optional
  // default is true
  // if path is invalid, automatically try
  // adding ".html" to the end
  infer: true,

  // optional
  // maximum number of requests
  // default is Infinity
  max: 100,

  // port
  // default is 8088
  port: 3000,

  // root directory to serve files from
  // default is the common working directory
  root: "/tmp/test",

  // how long to wait for requests in seconds
  // before shutting down
  // defaults to 60 seconds
  wait: 30
});

serve returns the following object:

{
  // whether byte range requests are being served
  acceptRanges: true,

  // whether debug logging is on/off
  debug: true,

  // whether html inference is enabled
  infer: true,

  // maximum number of requests
  max: 100,

  // port server is running on 
  port: 3000,

  // root being used
  root: "/tmp/test",

  // the http server object being used
  server: Server
}

in the terminal

You can just run srvd, but you have other options available:

srvd --accept-ranges=false --debug --port=8080 --root=$PWD/data

even more advanced usage

shutting the server down

If you want to shut the server down (but not kill the main NodeJS process), you can run server.close() or setting the environmental variable SRVD_PLZ_CLOSE to true like process.env.SRVD_PLZ_CLOSE=true;