Fires up a simple, static web server on a given port. Use for local web development or file sharing (directory browsing enabled).

Install

Install Node.js, then run

$ npm install -g local-web-server

Linux/Mac users may need to run the above with sudo

Usage

From the folder you wish to serve, run:

$ ws [--port|-p <port>] [--log-format|-p dev|default|short|tiny]

The default port and log-format are 8000 and dev, respectively.

Use with Logstalgia

The default log-format is compatible with logstalgia.

If you wrote your log output to disk, like so:

$ ws --log-format default > web.log

Then you could visualise in logstalgia:

$ logstalgia web.log

Alternatively, pipe directly from ws into logstalgia for real-time visualisation:

$ ws --log-format default | logstalgia -