Quickhost
Server and upload-client to quickly host a single static html page - useful for browserstack test.
Motivation
To test JavaScript code running in a browser, browserStack offers a good test platform but the selenium tests require the html files to be available in the internet. The problem is if you have files locally: how can you make them accessible by browserstack?
This is a simple http hosting server that - using a secret - allows to upload any given html file and hosts it for a limited amount of time. It also has a limit on amount of files to be hosted which means it cleans up after itself.
Start a server
Prerequisites: Node running!
$ env \
QUICKHOST_SECRET=$(node -p "crypto.randomBytes(8).toString('hex')") \
QUICKHOST_MAX=10 # (optional) Max number of html files to be hosted - default 10 \
QUICKHOST_MAX_SIZE=3145728 # (optional) Max number of bytes of a file to be hosted - default 3 Megabytes \
PORT=1234 # (optional) Port where the server will connect to - default 1234 \
HOST=localhost # (optional) Host where the server will connect to - default 0 \
npx quickhostImportant note: You should run nginx and letsencrypt to have turn the server into an https server.
Upload
Once the server is running you can upload and download files from that server using a simple API:
npm install @leichtgewicht/quickhost-
const upload = require('quickhost') const download = require('node-fetch') const server = 'https://quickhost.my-host.com' const key = await upload({ server, // Server url where the quickhost server is running secret: 'secret-from-server', // Secret used when starting the quickhost server data: '<html><b>Hello World</b></html>', // Data to be uploaded to the quickhost server timeout: 5000 // Timeout for the upload }) const data = await fetch(`${server}/${key}`) // Now we can download the server