Static This

This is a very simple node module that is installed globally and can be used to quickly start a static-web server for any directory.

Simple use-cases that come to mind:

Rapid preview of an in-development website
Show web files, such as JS and CSS, directly in the web-browser without needing to show the file:// protocol with the complete path to that file
View technical documentation that may be in HTML format, such as javadocs

Installation

npm install -g staticthis

For the current directory:

staticthis

To run on a different port (default is 9100) and to use a different directory:

staticthis -p 1234 -d public

... optionally ...

staticthis -p 1234 -d ./public

... and finally...

staticthis -p 1234 -d /usr/local/var/www