DocServer 0.1.0

** This is barely out of the oven, provided as is with ZERO guarantees, MIT license **

Offline Docs are better, they're faster and you don't have to deal with w3fools.com et al polluting your search results, but managing them can be a pain in the behind. Here's where DocServer comes in, tell it where the docs at and it'll keep it organised by:

• programming language
• library name
• version

At present DocServer can use the following sources:

• fetch an online .zip file
• mirror an online directory using wget as the backend
• copy from a local directory

Installation

Install Node

npm install -g node-docserver

Run nodeDocServer, it should be on your path.

Point your browser at http://localhost:8089

Go Hog Wild!

Usage

Click the top right button to start downloading a new doc. Enter the details of your docs and then click to start. Here's some examples:

Language: Python
Library: Django
Version: 1.5
Source: https://docs.djangoproject.com/s/docs/django-docs-1.5-en.zip

Language: Python
Library: StdLib
Version: 2.7.4
Source: http://docs.python.org/ftp/python/doc/2.7.4/python-2.7.4-docs-html.zip

Language: Coffeescript
Library: Reference
Version: latest
Source: http://coffeescript.org

Language: Javascript
Library: NodeJS
Version: latest
Source: http://nodejs.org/api/

You break it, you bought it.

This is brand new, excessively so. All file operations are done without admin privileges, and when used as intended will only operate within ~/.docserver. If you mess up your install, just delete that folder and you can start again. Currently the app is limited to localhost only as there isn't a shred of input validation going on.

Only used in Ubuntu, send me trip reports on other platforms!

Copyright (c) 2013 Full and By Design MIT License