devon

Very lightweight development webserver

Usage no npm install needed!

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README

devon

Lightweight Development HTTP Server written in nodejs

Usage

If you installed devon global, you only have to switch to your project directory and type in your terminal devon, hit enter and have fun.

Arguments

Set the argument followed by an equal sign and the value, like --port=9090.

Argument Content Description Default
-d, --daemonize none or boolean daemon server false
-h, --help none shows a short help message
-p, --port number port number 8080
-s, --silent none or boolean prevents the log messages false
  • -d, --daemonize does not need a value (but you can set true or false if you want)

Document location

Some note to where devon loads files: In the directory where you start, devon will take this as document location and all paths in the URL are relative to that.

Proxy

Devon has a simple reverse proxy handling. Add a .proxy-named file to the document location with content like this (example):

{
  "^\/couchdb(.*)quot;: {
    "host": "127.0.0.1",
    "port": 5984
  }
}

The top-level keys are regular expressions. And the objects to them are the target for the proxy. The content of the first braces is the new request url for the target. So in this example (if you come from localhost:8080) you will get http://localhost:8080/couchdb/foodb to http://127.0.0.1:5984/foodb.

Warning

Please do not(!) use this server in production mode. It has no security features and it will be easy to get secret data from your server. It's really only for local (max. office or something like that) development.

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2009-2013 André Kussmann zoddy@zoddy.de

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.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED 'AS IS', WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.