devserve

Specific single page application dev server with proxy to backend capabilities.

Install

npm install -g devserve

Running as command line utility

devserve --file /=index.html --proxy /api/=http://myapi:3333/ --dir /static/=static --base /home/hoho/www --port=3001

This command will run server on port 3001. For URIs starting with /static/ it will serve files from /home/hoho/www/static folder, for URIs starting with /api/ it will cut off /api prefix and proxy the rest to http://myapi:3333/, for other URIs it will serve /home/hoho/www/index.html.

Running as part of Node.JS application

devServe = require('devserve');
 
devServe({
    '/': {file: 'index.html'},
    '/api/': {proxy: 'http://myapi:3333/'},
    '/api2/': {callback: function(request, response) { response.end('Callback called'); }}
    '/static/': {dir: 'static'}
}, '/home/hoho/www', 3001);

This code will do the same as command line example above, plus a callback for /api2/*.

Base direcrory and port are optional, current working directory and 8080 are used by default.