Super fast, zero configuration command line HTTP Server written in Crystal programming language.
Zero configuration: fast-http-server and your server's ready.
usage: fast-http-server [-h] [-d DIR] [port]
positional arguments:
port specify alternate port [default: 3000]
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-d DIR, --directory DIR specify a directory
-l LIST, --listdir LIST enable/disable directory listing (yes/no)
By default fast-http-server listens port 3000. Go to localhost:3000.
To listen on a different port you can start fast-http-server with the desired port:
fast-http-server 5050
To choose a directory: fast-http-server -d example_directory
$ wrk -c 100 -d 20 -t 4 --latency http://localhost:3000
Running 20s test @ http://localhost:3000
4 threads and 100 connections
Thread Stats Avg Stdev Max +/- Stdev
Latency 3.98ms 615.13us 12.73ms 77.06%
Req/Sec 6.31k 347.48 7.05k 77.88%
Latency Distribution
50% 3.87ms
75% 4.27ms
90% 4.75ms
99% 5.86ms
502556 requests in 20.02s, 456.75MB read
Requests/sec: 25102.60
Transfer/sec: 22.81MB
You can install fast-http-server via Brew.
brew tap sdogruyol/fast-http-server
brew install fast-http-server
fast-http-server requires Crystal 1.0.0 You can install it here
git clone https://github.com/sdogruyol/fast-http-server
crystal build --release src/fast-http-server.cr
mv fast-http-server /usr/local/bin/fast-http-server
For quick use, add
alias fhs='fast-http-server'to your .bashrc | .zshrc | Profile file