Marmalade

Marmalade is a simple static file server utility. Marmalade is also a sweet breakfast or desert food commonly served on toast.

To install:

> npm install -g marmalade

Then in the root directory of your project (or the files you want to serve):

> marmalade

You'll get something like this:

> marmalade
Serving files in ~/my-website/ 
Kill the server with 'marmalade kill'
http://localhost:3000
>

Marmalade will detatch itself from the shell, so you don't have to worry about keeping that xterm window open. By default, only one instance of marmalade will run at a time, so starting a new server will close the previously started one.

The coolest feature of marmalade is that it will look for a Makefile (or Gruntfile) in the root directory and will run it with each request for the target file. This way you don't have to start 'watch make' in a background process whenever you start working on your project. If make fails, marmalade will return the failure text rather than the requested file.

Usage

marmalade [option] [hostname] [port]
marmalade kill [all]
            
-s, --stay  don't detatch from the shell
-e, --exec  custom command to execute with each request
-m          don't close existing intances of marmalade