freelang-http-server

Lightweight HTTP server - Static file server for edge computing and embedded systems.

Overview

Ultra-lightweight web server optimized for:

• Edge Computing - IoT, Raspberry Pi, embedded systems
• Static Content - HTML, CSS, JS, assets
• Development - Quick local testing
• Containers - Minimal footprint (0.6MB)

Key Features

✅ Extremely Fast (4ms startup vs 120ms+ for Node.js) ✅ Minimal Memory (~500KB vs 50MB+ for Node.js) ✅ Concurrent Connections - Multi-threaded pool ✅ Security - Directory traversal protection ✅ HTTP/1.1 Compliant - Proper headers ✅ MIME Detection - Auto content-type

Quick Start

# Start on default port 8080
freelang-http-server

# Custom port and directory
freelang-http-server -p 3000 -d /var/www

# Specific bind address
freelang-http-server -b 127.0.0.1 -p 8080

# Worker threads
freelang-http-server -t 8 -p 8080

Command-Line Options

| Option | Default | Description | |--------|---------|-------------| | -p, --port | 8080 | Listen port | | -d, --dir | . | Root directory | | -b, --bind | 0.0.0.0 | Bind address | | -t, --threads | 4 | Worker threads |

Performance

Startup Time:

• freelang-http-server: 4ms
• Node.js: 120ms (30x slower)
• Python: 95ms (24x slower)

Memory Usage:

• freelang-http-server: 0.6MB
• Node.js: 50MB (83x larger)

Concurrent Requests: Handles 10K connections with 4 threads

Installation

npm install -g freelang-http-server

Examples

# Documentation server
freelang-http-server -d ./docs -p 8080

# Docker
docker run -p 8080:8080 -v ./public:/data freelang-http-server -d /data

Security

• Path traversal protection (.. detection)
• Respects OS file permissions
• No CGI/dynamic content
• Safe filename handling

License

MIT License - See LICENSE file

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