A super fast web dev server, for faster development.
Experimental
Reboost is in early development, and some things may change/break before we hit version 1.0
When developing a web app, as your number of modules increases, your compile-time slows down, it's really a big problem, it takes a lot of precious time which you could have used to develop your app. Since ES2015 (aka ES6) modules are supported natively by browsers. If you can connect (or you can say serve) them up correctly, it will work on browsers without the need for bundling. Here, Reboost does that for you - the serving part. So you can develop your app faster.
NOTE: Reboost is only for use while you are developing your app, for production you've to bundle up your files by yourself using bundlers like Webpack, Rollup, etc.
Reboost works with both CommonJS and ES modules, so you can try it even if you are not using ES modules, though using ES modules is recommended.
First, install it using npm as devDependency
npm i -D reboost
Assume that file structure is like this
Project
public/
index.html
src/
add.js
subtract.js
index.js
package.json
Script contents
// src/add.js
export const add = (a, b) => a + b;
// src/subtract.js
export const subtract = (a, b) => a - b;
// src/index.js
import { add } from './add';
import { subtract } from './subtract';
console.log('1 + 3 =', add(1, 3));
console.log('10 - 5 =', subtract(10, 5));
and HTML content (public/index.html)
<!doctype html>
<html>
<body>
<!-- Note that the type is "module" -->
<script type="module" src="./dist/bundle.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
then create a file named reboost.js
const { start } = require('reboost');
start({
entries: [
// Format - [inputPath, outputPath]
['./src/index.js', './public/dist/bundle.js']
],
contentServer: {
root: './public',
open: true // Opens the browser
}
})
after that run the script using node, open your terminal in that directory and use the command
node reboost
You can see your code is working without any problem!
Reboost's content server is basically static, it just serves the file. If you want to use any other server (like browser-sync or your own http server) you can do that, you've to just serve the generated scripts which are in your output directory. Reboost will handle the rest.
Changelog
Configurations
Plugins
HMR API
Recipes
Supporting old browsers while using script type="module"
Reboost is highly inspired by these awesome projects
Licensed under the MIT License.
FAQs
A super fast dev server for rapid web development
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