luvi ♡

Simple dev server with Markdown support, CLI, and API.

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$ cd /path/to/your/project
$ luvi
♡ luvi listening on 4444

By default, luvi acts as a static server, serving the files in cwd.

Changes

• 6.0.0:
  • Removed:
    • Port finder (undocumented)
    • Custom 404 page (has a default)
    • Custom onListen
    • JSON configs (use the JS API)
  • Added:
    • Using through the Node API now returns an http.server
  • Changed:
    • open defaults to false
    • Markdown support is always on
• 5.2.0: Switch back to MIT license
• 5.1.0: Add Markdown support
• 5.0.0: Remove support for Node 8
• 4.0.0: Switch to LGPL-3.0
• 3.2.0: Un-deprecate, and add .htm and .xhtml support.
• 3.0.0: Removed lv shorthand. Use a shell alias.
• 2.1.1: Deprecated lv shorthand. This will still work until it's removed in 3.0.0. Please update any scripts using lv to use luvi.
• 2.0.0: Switched to MIT license.
• 0.8.6: luvi no longer has a proxying utility.
• 0.9.13: src/util is now src/lib.
• 0.9.19: src/ is now project root (src/lib is now /lib)
• 0.9.20: package.json is fixed so luvi works as a module again. Sorry about that!
• 0.9.21: Please npm rm -g luvi and then npm i -g luvi to upgrade!

Installation and Usage

$ npm i -g luvi
$ luvi [options]

If you'd rather not install globally, you can use npx: npx luvi [options].

[options]

♡ luvi (a server)
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usage:
    ♡ luvi           # launch server with default config
    ♡ luvi -p 1337   # listen on specified port
    ♡ luvi -r /path  # serve from specified dir
    ♡ luvi -o        # open the browser after start
    ♡ luvi -v        # luvi version
    ♡ luvi -h        # this help
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see the readme for flags and api

API

You can pass an object to luvi() for custom settings; otherwise, these defaults are applied:

const luvi = require('luvi')

const l = luvi({
  name: 'luvi',
  root: process.cwd(),
  port: 4444
})

// returns an http.server, so you can call l.close() when you're done with it

This is exactly the same as just calling luvi(), with no config object.

These defaults are merged with whatever you pass, so if, for example, you only pass in a custom server name, luvi will still run on port 4444 and use cwd as the root to serve.

Multiple servers can be launched from the same script, with different configs, by calling luvi() again with different options.

Options

• root: string (default: process.cwd())
  • Path where your static files are placed. Server only allows access to files in this directory. Usually where you'd have index.html. Can be absolute or relative.
  • Example: root: '/path/to/document/root'
• port: number (default: 4444)
  • Port on which to listen.
  • Example: port: 3000
• open: bool (default: false)
  • Open the browser on server start.
  • Example: open: true

Contributing

Please do, if you'd like! Any issue reports/fixes are welcome. I am not considering adding any features.

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