serve

A basic HTTP file server in Go

Features

Fast
Single binary
Logs with modifiable timestamps and response times (colorized when running in a terminal)
Directory listing supporting multiple content types (html,json and xml) via the Accept header
Directory downloads via on-demand zip and tar archives
Optional PushState (HTML5 History API) mode (missing directories returns the root)
LiveReload for automatic browser refresh (combines with this Chrome extension)
Fallback proxy (missing requests defer to another server)

Install

Binaries

See the latest release or download it with this one-liner: curl i.jpillora.com/serve | bash

Source

$ go get -v github.com/jpillora/serve

Usage

serve --help

<tmpl,code: go run main.go --help>


  Usage: serve [options] [directory]
  
  [directory] from which files will be served (default .)
  
  Options:
  --host, -h        Host interface (default 0.0.0.0)
  --port, -p        Listening port (default 3000)
  --livereload, -l  Enable LiveReload, a websocket server which triggers 
                    browser refresh after each file change
  --pushstate, -s   Enable PushState mode, causes missing directory paths 
                    to return the root index.html file, instead of a 404. 
                    This allows correct use of the HTML5 History API.
  --noindex, -n     Disable automatic loading of index.html
  --noslash         Disable automatic slash insertion when loading an 
                    index.html or directory
  --nolist          Disable directory listing
  --noarchive       Disable directory archiving (download directories by 
                    appending .zip .tar .tar.gz, archives are streamed 
                    without buffering)
  --quiet, -q       Disable all output
  --timefmt, -t     Set timestamp output format (default [2006-01-02 
                    15:04:05.000])
  --open, -o        On server startup, open the root in the default browser 
                    (uses the 'open' command)
  --fallback, -f    Requests that yeild a 404, will instead proxy through 
                    to the provided path (swaps in the appropriate Host 
                    header)
  --help          
  --version, -v   
  
  Version:
    0.0.0
  
  Read more:
    https://github.com/jpillora/serve

Credits

TJ's serve

MIT License

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.