super-simple-web-server
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A super simple node-express web server with https option for when you quickly need to serve some static files. Package includes self-signed certificates. Don't use this for production.
Serve static files on localhost with http & https.
npm install super-simple-web-server
Clone repo and run npm install in the root directory.
npm start [</path/to/web/root>]
Default path is your current working directory. Override by passing an optional path to your desired web root directory.
Default ports are 3000 (http) and 3001 (https). These can be changed in index.js.
The default IP 127.0.0.1 which should convieniently map to localhost.
Pro tip: Setting USE_LOCALHOST = false in index.js will instead scan for existing bound IP addresses on your machine via os.networkInterfaces(). The last available will be used.
Fictious self-signed certs are provided for your development convienience. They will exprire on June 6 2028. Obviously -- you don't want to use these for anything other than private testing.
See ./certs/ for more info...
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A super simple node-express web server with https option for when you quickly need to serve some static files. Package includes self-signed certificates. Don't use this for production.
The npm package super-simple-web-server receives a total of 37,095 weekly downloads. As such, super-simple-web-server popularity was classified as popular.
We found that super-simple-web-server demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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