faucet-pipeline / donny

simple static HTTP server for development

donny

as a surfer he explored the beaches of Southern California, from La Jolla to Leo Carrillo and up to Pismo

donny serves a directory of files via HTTP. That's it. It works similarly to python3 -m http.server or ruby -run -e httpd and is not intended to be used in production. Use it in development only.

Usage via CLI

Simply run

donny

to serve the current directory on port 8080. You can also run:

donny -p 9000 -b 127.0.0.1 dist

to bind to port 9000 for bind address 127.0.0.1 and serve the dist folder.

Usage as a library

let donny = require("donny");

donny({
    port: "9000",
    bind: "127.0.0.1",
    webroot: "dist"
}).then(() => {
    console.error("Serving 'dist' on port 9000");
});

Comparison to other solutions

• It has no dependencies except minimist.
• In comparison to servedir, it serves the index.html when asked for a directory instead of listing the contents.

License

donny is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License.