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***Requires node v4.0.0 or higher. Install the [previous release](https://github.com/75lb/local-web-server/tree/prev) for older node support.***
# local-web-server
At its core, local-web-server is an application shell for building a specialised command-line web server to support productive Web Platform engineers. When combined with built-in and custom features it's in intended to by a powerful tool in helping build and debug Web applications. It comes bundled with a middleware stack covering common requirements but any arbitrary stack can be specified from the command line or config.
Being an npm module, it is trivial is bundle and distribute/deploy with your web application.
**Typically used for building:**
* Simple static site* Single Page Application * Works well with React, Angular or vanilla JS.
**Backend scenarios covered:**
* Existing API* Mock API* Websocket server
**Server options**
* HTTP or HTTPS server * HTTPS is strictly required by some modern techs (ServiceWorker, Media Capture and Streams etc.)* Configurable middleware stack * Use any combination of built-in and custom middleware * specify options (for command line or config) * Accepts Koa v1 or 2 middleware
**Built-in Middleware stack**
* Rewrite routes to local or remote resources * Efficient, predictable, entity-tag-powered conditional request handling (no need to 'Disable Cache' in DevTools, slowing page-load down) * Configurable log output, compatible with [Goaccess, Logstalgia and glTail](https://github.com/75lb/local-web-server/blob/master/doc/visualisation.md) * Proxy server * Map local routes to remote servers. Removes CORS pain when consuming remote services. * Back-end service mocking * Prototype a web service, microservice, REST API etc. * Mocks are defined with config (static), or code (dynamic). * CORS-friendly, all origins allowed by default.
**Personalised stack**
## Synopsis
local-web-server is a command-line tool. To serve the current directory, run `ws`.
<pre><code>$ ws --help
<strong>local-web-server</strong>
A simple web-server for productive front-end development.
<strong>Synopsis</strong>
$ ws [--verbose] [<server options>] [<middleware options>] $ ws --config $ ws --help
<strong>Server</strong>
-p, --port number Web server port. --key file SSL key. Supply along with --cert to launch a https server. --cert file SSL cert. Supply along with --key to launch a https server. --https Enable HTTPS using a built-in key and cert, registered to the domain 127.0.0.1.
<strong>Middleware</strong>
-r, --rewrite expression ... A list of URL rewrite rules. For each rule, separate the 'from' and 'to' routes with '->'. Whitespace surrounded the routes is ignored. E.g. '/from -> /to'. -b, --forbid path ... A list of forbidden routes. -n, --no-cache Disable etag-based caching -forces loading from disk each request. -c, --compress Serve gzip-compressed resources, where applicable. -f, --log.format string If a format is supplied an access log is written to stdout. If not, a dynamic statistics view is displayed. Use a preset ('none', 'dev','combined', 'short', 'tiny' or 'logstalgia') or supply a custom format (e.g. ':method -> :url'). -s, --spa file Path to a Single Page App, e.g. app.html. -d, --directory path Root directory, defaults to the current directory.
<strong>Misc</strong>
-h, --help Print these usage instructions. --config Print the stored config.
Project home: https://github.com/75lb/local-web-server</code></pre>
## Install
```sh$ npm install -g local-web-server```* * *
© 2013-16 Lloyd Brookes <75pound@gmail.com>. Documented by [jsdoc-to-markdown](https://github.com/jsdoc2md/jsdoc-to-markdown).
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