Static Server for NodeJS

Available features

1. No npm-dependencies;
2. HTTP-methods: GET, HEAD, OPTIONS;
3. CORS;
4. Support simple cache with If-Modified-Since header
5. Set any directory as public
6. Set any file as index-file for server and for subdirectories of public directory
7. Simple requests-log to console
8. Ready to run out of box

CLI Run

node ./bin/nodess

or with npm

npm start

CLI Parameters & Options

• --help - show help information about cli-configuration.
• --port or -p - port for listening. Default is 3000
• --public or -d - public directory. Default is ./public
• --cors - CORS support. Default is false
• --cache-headers - support simple cache with If-Modified-Since header. Default is false.
• --index-file - name of custom index-file. Default is index.html.
• --verbose - print request-log to console. Default is false.

Examples

const createStaticServer = require('static-server-nodejs');
const path = require('path');
const PORT = process.env.NODESS_PORT || 3000;

let staticServer = createStaticServer(path.join(__dirname, './public'),{
    cors: true,
    cache: true,
    indexFile: 'index.html',
    verbose: true
})
    .listen(PORT, '127.0.0.1', () => {
        console.log(`Server run and listen on ${PORT} port.`);
    });

For examples, please, see ./examples/* or tests ./test/*.

Tests

Tests require Mocha.

mocha ./tests

or with npm

npm test 

Test coverage with Istanbul

npm run coverage

Road map

• extended cache-headers support
• gzip support
• support multipart/*
• create npm-package

License

Licensed under the MIT License