httpsrve

A lightweight HTTP server to browse and download files from your local directories.

Features

• 🚀 Zero configuration web server
• 📂 Directory listing with navigation
• 📄 File serving with appropriate content types
• 🔗 Easy access to local files through a browser

Installation

npm i httpsrve -g

Usage

Basic usage (serves current directory on port 80):

httpsrv

Specify a different port:

httpsrv 8080

Specify a custom directory to serve:

httpsrv 80 files

Specify both port and directory:

httpsrv 3000 path/to/files

How It Works

Once started, httpsrv will display a message like:

Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 80 (http://localhost:80/) ...

Visit the displayed URL in your browser to browse files and directories.

Content Types

httpsrve automatically detects and serves files with appropriate content types including:

• HTML (.html, .htm)
• CSS (.css)
• JavaScript (.js)
• Images (.png, .jpg, .jpeg, .gif, .svg)
• Text (.txt)
• JSON (.json)
• Other files (served as binary downloads)