Is the server up?
Wassup is a super-simple monitor for HTTP servers with an easy-to-glance-at Web UI. It sends HTTP requests to any URI you give it, and tells you whether it got a response.
Get Wassup from NPM:
$ npm install -g wassup
To run Wassup, just do:
$ wassup
Wassup server listening at 127.0.0.1:9000...
Binding to a custom host and port is easy:
$ wassup --host=0.0.0.0 --port=8080
Options for the wassup command can be found with:
$ wassup --help
To run the tests:
$ npm test