General introduction

A command line tool to serve local directory with http protocol

Installation

# Install globally:
npm i instantly_http -g 

Options

instant_http --help
Usage: instant_http  [global options]

Options:
  -V, --version                      output the version number
  -p --port [port]                   To point which port to use as the server address. (default: "9090")
  -d --dir [dir]                     Dir to serve (default: "/home/frank/code/InstantHttp")
  -pt --proxyTarget [proxyTarget]    Where the delegated communication targets to
  -pp --proxyPattern [proxyPattern]  URL matcher to be used to identify which url to proxy
  -o --open [open]                   Whether to open chrome automatically (default: false)
  -m --mode [mode]                   Which mode to use (default: "NORMAL")
  -i --indexFile [indexFile]         Index File location(relative to --dir) (default: "index.html")
  -q --quiet [quiet]                 Set it to false to see more debug outputs (default: false)
  -h, --help                         display help for command

Usages

MJS/TS

import {run} from 'instantly_http';

CJS

const {run} = require('instantly_http');

As a binary

./instantHttp  --open=false --port=8080 --proxyTarget=http://google.com --proxyPattern=/proxy

Build for portable binary

After checkout then install this repository, you can then try below commands to get an executable binary.

npm run build-binary

pkg is used as the package utility, please check pkg's document in order to build runnable binaries as you want.

Test

npm run test