Requires node v7.6 or higher. Install the previous release for node >= v4.0.0. Documentation still WIP.

local-web-server

The development web server for productive front-end and full-stack Javascript engineers. Built on lws.

Features

• Fast and lightweight.
• Use the built-in features, a subset of the built-ins or your own feature stack
• Configurable with sensible defaults.
  • Configure by constructor option, command-line option, stored config or all three.
• HTTP or HTTPS (HTTP2 will be added once ready)
• URL rewriting
  • Local rewrites for quick experimentation (e.g. from /img/logo.svg to /img/new-logo.svg)
  • Rewrite to remote resources (e.g. from /api/* to https://example-api.pl/api/$1). Note: ignores remote server's CORS policy, which during development is typically what you want.
• Optimisal caching by default.
  • 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
• Configurable CORS rules. All origins allowed by default.

Links to demoes and how-tos

Things you can build:

• Simple static website
• Single Page Application
  • Works well with React, Angular or vanilla JS.
• Real or mock web services
  • e.g. a RESTful API or microservice
  • Mocks are defined with config (static), or code (dynamic).
• Websocket server

Synopsis

local-web-server is a command-line tool. To serve the current directory, run ws.

$ ws --help

local-web-server

  A convenient local web server to support productive, full-stack Javascript
  development.

Synopsis

  $ ws [--verbose] [--config-file file] [<server options>] [<middleware options>]
  $ ws --config
  $ ws --help
  $ ws --version

General

  -h, --help               Print these usage instructions.
  --config                 Print the active config.
  -c, --config-file file   Config filename to use, defaults to "lws.config.js".
  -v, --verbose            Verbose output.
  --version                Print the version number.

Server

  -p, --port number     Web server port.
  --hostname string     The hostname (or IP address) to listen on. Defaults to 0.0.0.0.
  --stack feature ...   Feature stack.
  --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.

Middleware

  -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', 'stats', or 'logstalgia') or supply a custom format (e.g.
                                 ':method -> :url').
  --cors.origin                  Access-Control-Allow-Origin value. Default is request Origin header.
  --cors.allow-methods           Access-Control-Allow-Methods value. Default is
                                 "GET,HEAD,PUT,POST,DELETE,PATCH"
  -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.
  -z, --compress                 Serve gzip-compressed resources, where applicable.
  --compress.threshold number    Minimum response size in bytes to apply compression. Defaults to 1024 bytes.
  --spa file                     Path to a Single Page App, e.g. app.html.
  --spa.asset-test RegExp        A regular expression to identify an asset file. Defaults to "\.".
  -d, --directory path           Root directory, defaults to the current directory.
  --static.maxage number         Browser cache max-age in milliseconds.
  --static.defer                 If true, serves after `yield next`, allowing any downstream middleware to
                                 respond first.
  --static.index path            Default file name, defaults to `index.html`.
  --index.root path              Index root directory, defaults to --directory or the current directory.
  --index.hidden                 Show hidden files.
  --index.view name              Display mode, either `tiles` or `details`. Defaults to tiles.

  Project home: https://github.com/lwsjs/local-web-server

Install

$ npm install -g local-web-server

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