Is it possible to use elixir native http-server to run a index.html on localhost?

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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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I just tried this and it works:

elixir -e ":inets.start; :inets.start(:httpd, port: 8000, server_name: 'local', server_root: './', document_root: './')" --no-halt

First start :inets then use it to start an http server listening on port 8000 and serving the local folder.

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Damn, that is extremely neat.

Since there is no elixir specific code there, I bet you can run this with only OTP.

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This also might be of interest:

Big list of http static server one-liners

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As of OTP 27 (currently in rc2) you can do:

erl -S httpd

For a different port:

erl -S httpd serve -p 8081

To serve a different directory:

erl -S httpd serve /some/dir

https://erlang.org/documentation/doc-15.0-rc1/lib/inets-9.2/doc/html/http_server.html#serving-files-from-the-command-line

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