glance

a quick disposable http server for static files

installation

npm install -g glance

usage

Run glance from within a directory and you are immediately serving the files from within that directory

If the directory being served has a .glance.json file within it, configuration will be read from that. Failing that, glance will look for a ~/.glance.json for directives. Failing that, glance will use defaults. Command line options will always override config file options.

command line options

glance [options]

• --dir, -d <dir> serve <dir> instead of current directory
• --help, -h print help screen with option listing
• --hideindex, -H don't serve directory listing
• --indices, -I comma-separated file names to use as indices
• --nodot, -n hide dot files
• --port, -p <port> open server on <port> rather than 8080
• --version, -V print version information
• --verbose, -v enable verbose mode, printing log to stdout

config format

Your config should be valid JSON in the following format (shown with defaults):

{
  "port": 8080,
  "hideindex": false,
  "dir": "/whatever/dir/you/are/in",
  "verbose": false,
  "indices": ["index.html", "index.htm"],
  "nodot": false
}

as a module

Alternatively, you can require('glance') and use it as a module within your own code.

Some sample code might just look something like this:

var http = require('http')

var glance = require('glance')
// init a glance object with custom options (all totally optional)

var g = glance({
  dir: '../Files', // defaults to current working dir
  port: 86753, // defaults to 8080
  indices: [], // use these file names to provide indices
  hideindex: true, // will not provide a directory list if requested
  nodot: true, // will hide dot files from lists and will not serve them
  verbose: true // defaults to false
})

// just use glance to serve requests if you wanna
http
  .createServer(function(req, res) {
    if (/^\/static\//.test(req.url)) {
      return g.serveRequest(req, res)
    }
    // pretend i do other stuff here...
  })
  .listen(5309)

// or, use it to start a static file server
g.start()

// listen for read events
g.on('read', function(req) {
  console.dir(req)
  /* req object of format:
    {
        fullPath: 'requested path'
      , ip: 'remote ip address'
      , method: 'requested method'
      , response: 'response object'
    }
  */
})

// listen for error events
g.on('error', function(req) {
  console.log('BAD!!!!')
  // stop the glance server
  g.stop()
})

license

MIT