glim / metalsmith-serve

metalsmith-serve

A metalsmith plugin to serve the build directory. Best used in development and with metalsmith-watch.

Installation

$ npm install metalsmith-serve

Basic Example

var metalsmith = require('metalsmith');
var serve = require('metalsmith-serve');

metalsmith(__dirname)
  .use(serve())
  .build();

This will serve Metalsmith's build directory on localhost:8080. By default, metalsmith-serve will only log error requests.

Advanced Example

var metalsmith = require('metalsmith');
var serve = require('metalsmith-serve');

metalsmith(__dirname)
  .use(serve({
    port: 8081,
    verbose: true
  }))
  .build();

This will serve Metalsmith's build directory on localhost:8081 and will show all served requests.

Options

host

Type: String Default: localhost

Hostname or IP to listen on.

port

Type: Number Default: 8080

Port to listen on.

cache

Type: Number Default: 0

Number of seconds to cache served files

verbose

Type: Boolean Default: false

Log all requests

extensions

Type: Array Default: ['html']

License

MIT