serve-it - an easy-to-use local http(s) server

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A global npm command serve-it that takes a "virtual url path" with an optional port and an optional path (defaulting to cwd). The command starts up an http server (optionally: https) and adds the required configuration to serve the files in that folder (recursively). If the server is already running, it just reconfigures the server at runtime.

Examples:

• serve-it foo:8081 // serves current working directory at http://localhost:8081/foo
• serve-it --save bar ./bar/src // serves ./bar/src at http://localhost:$PORT/bar with $PORT being default port from ~/.serve-it/config.json or 8080 if not configured; persists to ~/.serve-it/config.json

An optional --save adds the configuration to ~/.serve-it/config.json Anytime the runtime configuration changes, it is also written to ~/.serve-it/.runtime.json - allowing to restore the last configuration after a crash using a command like serve-it --restore

Every configuration entry in ~/.serve-it/config.json can have an optional tags property, an array of strings. Using a command like serve-it --tags=foo,bar the server will start up/reconfigure such that only matching entries from the configuration are active