serve-http

Simple single-file local web server

• Single file — copy it into your project
• No dependencies
• Livereload
• Safety feature: Only serves local connections unless given explicit command-line argument.
• Safety feature: Refuses to serve directories outside home directory to remote connections.

Install by copying serve-http into your project, or npm i serve-http

It may also be convenient to install it globally on your machine: npm i -g serve-http

$ ./serve-http -help
Usage: ./serve-http [options] [<dir>]

<dir>
  Directory to serve files from. Defaults to the current directory.

Options:
  -p, -port <port>  Listen on specific <port>
  -host <host>      Bind to <host> instead of "localhost"
  -public           Accept connections from anywhere (same as -host "")
  -quiet            Disable request logging
  -no-livereload    Disable livereload
  -no-dirlist       Disable directory listing
  -h, -help         Show help and exit
  -version          Print version to stdout and exit

Examples:

  ./serve-http
    Serve current directory on some available port

  ./serve-http -p 8080 docs
    Serve directory ./docs locally on port 8080

  ./serve-http -public -no-dirlist
    Serve current directory publicly on some available port,
    without directory listing.

JavaScript API

serve-http can also be used as a library:

const { createServer } = require("serve-http")
const server = createServer({ pubdir: __dirname, port: 1234 })
// `server` is a standard nodejs http server instance.

See TypeScript type definitions for documentation of the API: serve-http.d.ts