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This project is forked from https://github.com/brson/basic-http-server
basic-http-server
A simple static HTTP server, for learning and local development.
basic-http-server
is designed for two purposes:
-
as a teaching tool. It is a simple and well-commented example of basic
tokio
,hyper
, and asynchronous Rust programming, withasync
/await
. -
for local development. It serves static HTML content, and with the
-x
flag, provides convenience features useful for creating developer documentation, including markdown rendering and directory listing.
The entire reference source for setting up a hyper
HTTP server is contained in
main.rs
. The ext.rs
file contains developer extensions.
Developer extensions
When passed the -x
flag, basic-http-server
enables additional conveniences
useful for developing documentation locally. Those extensions are:
-
Rendering files with the ".md" extension as Markdown.
-
Listing directories when no "index.html" file is found.
-
Serving common source code files as "text/plain" so they are rendered in the browser.
This makes basic-http-server
useful for the following scenarios:
-
Previewing markdown content. Draft your
README.md
changes and view them locally before pushing to GitHub. -
Navigating to local documentation, including Rust API documentation. Just run
basic-http-server -x
in your project directory, and use the directory listing to navigate totarget/doc
, then find the crates to read from there (cargo doc
doesn't put anindex.html
file intarget/doc
).
Installation and Use
Note that basic-http-server
is not production-ready and should not be
exposed to the internet. It is a learning and development tool.
Install with cargo install
:
$ cargo install basic-http-server
$ basic-http-server
To turn on the developer extensions, pass -x
:
$ basic-http-server -x
To increase logging verbosity use RUST_LOG
:
RUST_LOG=basic_http_server=trace basic-http-server -x
Command line arguments:
USAGE:
basic-http-server [FLAGS] [OPTIONS] [ARGS]
FLAGS:
-x Enable developer extensions
-h, --help Prints help information
-V, --version Prints version information
OPTIONS:
-a, --addr <ADDR> Sets the IP:PORT combination (default "127.0.0.1:4000")
ARGS:
ROOT Sets the root directory (default ".")
License
MIT/Apache-2.0
Dependencies
~14–25MB
~377K SLoC