serve-http

Simple single-file local web server

- Single file — copy it into your project
- No dependencies
- Livereload
- Safety feature: Only serves local connections unless given explicit command-line argument.
- Safety feature: Refuses to serve directories outside home directory to remote connections.

Install by copying
serve-http
into your project, or npm i serve-http

It may also be convenient to install it globally on your machine: npm i -g serve-http

``$ ./serve-http -help Usage: ./serve-http [options] [


  Directory to serve files from. Defaults to the current directory.
Options:
  -p, -port   Listen on specific 
  -host       Bind to  instead of "localhost"
  -public           Accept connections from anywhere (same as -host "")
  -quiet            Disable request logging
  -no-livereload    Disable livereload
  -no-dirlist       Disable directory listing
  -h, -help         Show help and exit
  -version          Print version to stdout and exit
Examples:
  ./serve-http
    Serve current directory on some available port
  ./serve-http -p 8080 docs
    Serve directory ./docs locally on port 8080
  ./serve-http -public -no-dirlist
    Serve current directory publicly on some available port,
    without directory listing.

`JavaScript API`

serve-http can also be used as a library:

`js const { createServer } = require("serve-http") const server = createServer({ pubdir: __dirname, port: 1234 }) //serveris a standard nodejs http server instance.`

See TypeScript type definitions for documentation of the API:serve-http.d.ts`