rendro / proxydevserver

A proxy development server written in node.js that intercepts configured requests to serve static resources as well as JavaScript and CSS compiled by preprocessors like LESS, browserify or CoffeeScript.

Proxy dev server

The proxydevserver is highly inspired by KnisterPeters smaller-dev-server. It aims to proxy all requests, intersecting some to serve a fresh set of assets like images, JavaScript or Stylesheets.

Currently it supports the following middelwares:

• LESS.js
• Browserify

Install

$ npm install -g proxydevserver
$ proxydevserver -c config.yml

config.yml

devserver:
  # hostname of the proxy
  host: 'localhost'
  # port of the proxy
  port: 3000
  # support live reload
  livereload: true
  # serve static files
  staticDir: './static/'
  proxy:
    # host of the target server
    host: 'localhost'
    # port of the target server
    port: 8181
  middlewares:
    # configure less middleware
    less:
      # url to intersect
      src: '/app.css'
      # url to rewrite src
      dest: '/entry.css'
      # less middleware opeions
      options:
        src: './sourcestyles/'
        dest: './static'
        compress: false
        sourceMap: false
        paths:
          - './sourceincludes/'
    # configure browserify middleware
    browserify:
      # url to intersect
      src: '/app.js'
      # url to rewrite src
      dest: './static/entry.js'
      # browserify options
      options:
        sourceMap: true
        transforms:
          - coffeeify
        aliases:
          - "js/ext/jquery.js#jquery"
        paths:
          - './sourceincludes/'

Credits

Thanks to SinnerSchrader for their support and the time to work on this project.