This package has been deprecated

Author message:

NoLongerUsed

gulfi

1.0.2 • Public • Published

Gulfi

zero-configuration web server with built in pre-processing

What is Gulfi?

Gulfi is a static web server that also serves Jade, Markdown, EJS, Less, Stylus, Sass, and CoffeeScript as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript without any configuration. It supports the beloved layout/partial paradigm and it has flexible metadata and global objects for traversing the file system and injecting custom data into templates. Optionally, Gulfi can also compile your project down to static assets for hosting behind any valid HTTP server.

Why?

Pre-compilers are becoming extremely powerful and shipping front-ends as static assets has many upsides. It's simple, it's easy to maintain, it's low risk, easy to scale, and requires low cognitive overhead. I wanted a lightweight web server that was powerful enough for me to abandon web frameworks for dead simple front-end publishing.

Features

  • easy installation, easy to use
  • fast and lightweight
  • robust (clean urls, intelligent path redirects)
  • built in pre-processing
  • first-class layout and partial support
  • built in LRU caching in production mode
  • can export assets to HTML/CSS/JS
  • does not require a build steps or grunt task
  • fun to use

Supported Pre-Processors

Language Superset Whitespace Sensitive
HTML EJS Jade, Markdown
CSS LESS, Sass (SCSS) Stylus, Sass
JavaScript (TBD) CoffeeScript

Resources

Authored and maintained by @YoginthS.


Installation

sudo npm install -g gulfi

Quick Start

Creating a new gulfi application is a breeze...

gulfi init myproj
gulfi server myproj

Your Gulfi application is now running at http://localhost:9000


Documentation

Gulfi can be used as a library or as a command line utility.

CLI Usage

Usage: gulfi [command] [options]

Commands:

  init [path]                 initalize new gulfi application (defaults to current directory)
  server [path] [options]     start gulfi server
  compile [path] [options]    compile project to static assets
  multihost [path] [options]  start gulfi server to host directory of gulfi apps

Options:

  -h, --help     output usage information
  -V, --version  output the version number

Start the server in root of your application by running...

gulfi server

You may optionally supply a port to listen on...

gulfi server --port 8002

Compile an application from the root of your application by running...

gulfi compile

You may optionally pass in a path to where you want the compiled assets to go...

gulfi compile --output /path/to/cordova/project/www

Lib Usage

You may also use gulfi as a node library for compiling or running as a server.

Serve up a gulfi application...

var gulfi = require("gulfi")
gulfi.server(projectPath [,args] [,callback])

Or compile gulfi application

var gulfi = require("gulfi")
gulfi.compile(projectPath [,outputPath] [, callback])

Or use as Connect/ExpressJS middleware

var express = require("express");
var gulfi = require("gulfi");
var app = express();
// Express 3
app.configure(function(){ 
  app.use(express.static(__dirname + "/public"));
  app.use(gulfi.mount(__dirname + "/public"));
});
// Express 4

app.use(express.static(__dirname + "/public"));
app.use(gulfi.mount(__dirname + "/public"));

License

Copyright © 2012–2014 Chloi Inc. All rights reserved.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Package Sidebar

Install

npm i gulfi

Weekly Downloads

0

Version

1.0.2

License

MIT

Unpacked Size

46.3 kB

Total Files

19

Last publish

Collaborators

  • npm