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# local-web-server
A simple web-server for productive front-end development.

**Requires node v4.0.0 or higher**.

## Synopsis
Some typical use cases. For these examples, assume we're in a site directory looking like this:

```sh
.
├── css
│   └── style.css
├── index.html
└── package.json
```

### Static site

Fire up your static site on the default port:
```sh
$ ws
serving at http://localhost:8000
```

### Single Page Application

You're building a web app with client-side routing, so mark `index.html` as the SPA.
```sh
$ ws --spa index.html
```

By default, typical SPA urls (e.g. `/user/1`, `/login`) would return `404 Not Found`. By marking `index.html` as the SPA you create this rule: *if a file with that url exists (e.g. `/css/style.css`) then serve it, if it does not (e.g. `/login`) then pass it to the SPA*.

### Access Control

Access to all files is allowed, beside those you forbid (e.g. config files):
```sh
$ ws --forbid .json .yml
serving at http://localhost:8000
```

### URL rewriting

When urls don't map to your directory structure, rewrite:
```sh
$ ws --rewrite /css=>/build/css
```

Rewrite to remote servers (proxy):
```sh
$ ws --rewrite "/api => http://api.example.com/api" \
               "/npm => http://registry.npmjs.com" \
               "/user/:project/repo -> https://api.github.com/repos/:project"
```

### Mock Responses

### Stored config

Always use this port and blacklist? Persist it to the config:
```json
{
  "name": "example",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "local-web-server": {
    "port": 8100,
    "forbid": "\\.json$"
  }
}
```

### Other features

Compression, caching, simple statistics view, log, override mime types.

## Install
Ensure [node.js](http://nodejs.org) is installed first. Linux/Mac users may need to run the following commands with `sudo`.

```sh
$ npm install -g local-web-server
```

## Distribute with your project
The standard convention with client-server applications is to add an `npm start` command to launch the server component.

1. Install the server as a dev dependency

```sh
$ npm install local-web-server --save-dev
```

2. Add a `start` command to your `package.json`:

```json
{
  "name": "example",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "local-web-server": {
    "port": 8100,
    "forbid": "\\.json$"
  },
  "scripts": {
    "start": "ws"
  }
}
```

3. Document how to build and launch your site

```sh
$ npm install
$ npm start
```

## Storing default options
To store per-project options, saving you the hassle of inputting them everytime, store them in the `local-web-server` property of your project's `package.json`:
```json
{
  "name": "my-project",
  "version": "0.11.8",
  "local-web-server":{
    "port": 8100
  }
}
```

Or in a `.local-web-server.json` file stored in the directory you want to serve (typically the root folder of your site):
```json
{
  "port": 8100,
  "log-format": "tiny"
}
```

Or store global defaults in a `.local-web-server.json` file in your home directory.
```json
{
  "port": 3000,
  "refresh-rate": 1000
}
```

All stored defaults are overriden by options supplied at the command line.

To view your stored defaults, run:

```sh
$ ws --config
```

## mime-types
You can set additional mime-type/extension mappings, or override the defaults by setting a `mime` value in your local config. This value is passed directly to [mime.define()](https://github.com/broofa/node-mime#mimedefine). Example:

```json
{
    "mime": {
        "text/plain": [ "php", "pl" ]
    }
}
```

## Use with Google DevTools Workspaces


## Log Visualisation
Instructions for how to visualise log output using goaccess, logstalgia or gltail [here](https://github.com/75lb/local-web-server/wiki/Log-visualisation).

## API Reference

<a name="module_local-web-server"></a>
## local-web-server
<a name="exp_module_local-web-server--localWebServer"></a>
### localWebServer([options]) ⏏
Returns a Koa application

**Kind**: Exported function  

| Param | Type | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [options] | <code>object</code> | options |
| [options.forbid] | <code>Array.&lt;regexp&gt;</code> | a list of forbidden routes. |

**Example**  
```js
const localWebServer = require('local-web-server')
```

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