Lib.rs

Basic file explorer

This is not a webserver per se, but a file share over HTTP.

The main idea is to serve the current folder, this is intended to be used to serve any folder on the system, there are no security measures, so be aware of leaving this running in a computer connected to any network, but for simple file sharing it is more than enough, just remember to kill it afterwards.

It can be installed with cargo by doing:

cargo install local-serve

Usage:

Usage: local-serve [OPTIONS]

Options:
  -d, --dir <DIR>    Directory to serve files from [default: .]
  -p, --port <PORT>  Port to listen on [default: 3000]
  -h, --help         Print help
  -V, --version      Print version

Example:

local-serve
2025-01-29T22:05:13.092748Z  INFO local_serve: 🚀 File server starting on http://0.0.0.0:3000
2025-01-29T22:05:13.092766Z  INFO local_serve: 📂 Serving files from: .
2025-01-29T22:05:13.092786Z  INFO local_serve: listening on 0.0.0.0:3000
2025-01-29T22:06:02.424260Z DEBUG request{method=GET uri=/ version=HTTP/1.1}: tower_http::trace::on_request: started processing request
2025-01-29T22:06:02.424388Z DEBUG request{method=GET uri=/ version=HTTP/1.1}: tower_http::trace::on_response: finished processing request latency=0 ms status=200
2025-01-29T22:06:04.524044Z DEBUG request{method=GET uri=/src/ version=HTTP/1.1}: tower_http::trace::on_request: started processing request
2025-01-29T22:06:04.524268Z DEBUG request{method=GET uri=/src/ version=HTTP/1.1}: tower_http::trace::on_response: finished processing request latency=0 ms status=200
2025-01-29T22:06:05.796686Z DEBUG request{method=GET uri=/src/main.rs version=HTTP/1.1}: tower_http::trace::on_request: started processing request
2025-01-29T22:06:05.796887Z DEBUG request{method=GET uri=/src/main.rs version=HTTP/1.1}: tower_http::trace::on_response: finished processing request latency=0 ms status=200

This is basically an alternative for:

# Python version
python3 -m http.server

# Ruby version
ruby -run -ehttpd . -p8000

# PHP version
php -S 127.0.0.1:8000

And many more as you can find here, however sometimes you don't have an interpreter, so a binary can do the trick.