Serve Like A Pro

A minimalistic connect based web server for serving static web-sites in a production environment.

Key Features

1. Minimal footprint
2. Can cache specific files in the server memory
3. Can set HTTP cache headers on specific files
4. Automatically recognizes the PORT env var
5. Supports gzip compression

Usage & Setup

Basically install and run the binary

npm install serve-like-a-pro --save
node_modules/.bin/serve-like-a-pro [dirname]

You can start the server programmatically from any other javascript file.

const serve = require('serve-like-a-pro');

const server = serve({
  root: "./build",
  port: process.env.PORT || 1234,
  memoize: ["**/*.js", "**/*.css"],
  cache: {
    "**/*.js": 60 * 60 * 24 * 365
  },
  fallback: "404.html",
  gzip: true
});

Copyright & License

All code in this repository is released under the terms of the ISC license

Copyright (C) 2017 Nikolay Nemshilov