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Just wondering about is it possible to run a single static page locally (just two files in a project index.html and styles.css) using Elixir-native http-server?
Today, for these purposes I run $ npx http-server in the root folder.
May be there is a same simple method but using Elixir?
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Hermanverschooten
I just tried this and it works:
elixir -e ":inets.start; :inets.start(:httpd, port: 8000, server_name: 'local', server_root: './', document_root: './')" --no-haltFirst start
:inetsthen use it to start an http server listening on port 8000 and serving the local folder.D4no0
Damn, that is extremely neat.
Since there is no elixir specific code there, I bet you can run this with only OTP.
dimitarvp
This also might be of interest:
Big list of http static server one-liners
Gazler
As of OTP 27 (currently in rc2) you can do:
erl -S httpdFor a different port:
erl -S httpd serve -p 8081To serve a different directory:
erl -S httpd serve /some/dir