A small utility to create a binary embedding a static website/webapp and a webserver to serve it.
Was my proof of concept before doing it in Rust (https://github.com/DuredhelFinceleb/embedded_files_server), but I thought I'll publish it anyway.
Useful for example if you need to run a webapp on any machine without having to copy the files & setup a webserver.
Instead, just copy the binary and launch your browser.
The server is always launched on localhost.
By default, it listens on port 3000. This can be changed at runtime using the '--port' command line argument. This means you can run multiple instances of the same website/webapp.
Under the hood it uses:
- std@0.115.1/flags for command line arguments handling
- std@0.115.1/http for webserving
- leaf@v1.0.4 (https://github.com/mandarineorg/leaf) for files embedding
Executed with:
- deno 1.16.2
Tested with
- Ubuntu 20.04
- WSL running Ubuntu 20.04
- Windows 10 Pro 21H1
Clone this repo.
Run the build script with the path of the folder to embed Under Linux
chmod +x ./build.sh
./build.sh <path_to_folder_to_embed>
Under Windows:
.\build.cmd <path_to_folder_to_embed>
The binary will be into the same folder as the build script & named 'embedded_files_server' (or 'embedded_files_server.exe' on Windows). It can be renamed and moved freely. Just run it. The '--port' command line argument will be accepted to change the port from the default 3000.