It's a fork from http-party/http-server
Main purpose is to make a standalone executable binary CLI corresponding to bin/http-server JS
This executable is build with NPM pkg utility, stored in a directory called pkg-binaries (to be ignored by GIT, syntax then being pkg . --out-path pkg-binaries)
Library (lib/http-server.js) is left untouched (though a little bit modernized and beautified)
For testing, pretest script using outdated devDependencies package common-style has been removed as code is intended to be beautified, conformed, and linted with Visual Studio Code plug-ins (moreover common-style and its replacement eslint-config-populist conflict with the Beautify plug-in in their design rules)
CLI source in bin/http-server has been slightly tweaked to suits our needs: having default HTML root directory named htdocs and default port 5000. Also, in case no address is given it defaults to localhost not all interfaces (which is the case when 0.0.0.0 is provided as an address)
usage: http-server [path] [options]
default path: ./htdocs
options:
-p --port Port to use [5000]
-a Address to use [ localhost ], use 0.0.0.0 for listening on all local interfaces
-d Show directory listings [true]
-i Display autoIndex [true]
-g --gzip Serve gzip files when possible [false]
-b --brotli Serve brotli files when possible [false]
If both brotli and gzip are enabled, brotli takes precedence
-e --ext Default file extension if none supplied [none]
-s --silent Suppress log messages from output
--cors[=headers] Enable CORS via the "Access-Control-Allow-Origin" header
Optionally provide CORS headers list separated by commas
-o [path] Open browser window after starting the server
Optionally provide a URL path to open the browser window to
-c Cache time (max-age) in seconds [3600], e.g. -c10 for 10 seconds
To disable caching, use -c-1
-t Connections timeout in seconds [120], e.g. -t60 for 1 minute
To disable timeout, use -t0
-U --utc Use UTC time format in log messages
--log-ip Enable logging of the client's IP address
-P --proxy Fallback proxy if the request cannot be resolved. e.g.: http://someurl.com
--username Username for basic authentication [none]
Can also be specified with the env variable NODE_HTTP_SERVER_USERNAME
--password Password for basic authentication [none]
Can also be specified with the env variable NODE_HTTP_SERVER_PASSWORD
-S --ssl Enable https
-C --cert Path to ssl cert file (default: cert.pem)
-K --key Path to ssl key file (default: key.pem)
-r --robots Respond to /robots.txt [User-agent: *\nDisallow: /]
--no-dotfiles Do not show dotfiles
-h --help Print this list and exit
-v --version Print the version and exit