watch-http-server
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a simple command-line http server with the built-in zero-configuration automatic page reloads.
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watch-http-server: a command-line http server
watch-http-server
is a simple, zero-configuration command-line http server.
It simply injects a very small javascript include right before the tag of your HTML documents, whereby a websocket connection is made on the host, triggering a reload of the page. Currently this happens when any item in the folder changes but it may soon be made to be specific relevant to the loaded document.
Installing globally:
Installation via npm
. If you don't have npm
yet:
curl https://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh
Once you have npm
:
npm install watch-http-server -g
This will install watch-http-server
globally so that it may be run from the command line.
Usage:
watch-http-server [path] [options]
(or alternatively, whs or watchhttpserver)
[path]
defaults to ./public
if the folder exists, and ./
otherwise.
Usage
Starting watch-http-server locally
node bin/watch-http-server
Now you can visit http://localhost:8080 to view your server
Available Options:
-p
Port to use (defaults to 8080)
-a
Address to use (defaults to 0.0.0.0)
-d
Show directory listings (defaults to 'True')
-i
Display autoIndex (defaults to 'True')
-e
or --ext
Default file extension if none supplied (defaults to 'html')
-s
or --silent
Suppress log messages from output
--cors
Enable CORS via the Access-Control-Allow-Origin
header
-o
Open browser window after staring the server
-S
or --ssl
Enable https.
-C
or --cert
Path to ssl cert file (default: cert.pem).
-K
or --key
Path to ssl key file (default: key.pem).
-h
or --help
Print this list and exit.