nowdev

Fast and simple web server for prototyping anything.
Reloads changes automatically for API routes and static.

Inspired by the old (more complicated) now dev by Vercel.

Installation

mkdir -p ~/bin
git clone https://github.com/bryanjhv/nowdev.git ~/.nowdev
cd ~/.nowdev
npm install
ln -s ~/.nowdev/server.js ~/bin/nowdev

Usage

Simply run nowdev in a folder.
But... keep in mind the following:

• Simple file server:
  Make sure there is no api folder.
  Make sure there is no public folder.

• Simple Node.js API:
  Keep your endpoints in api folder.
  Files like [id].js allow param passing.
  Export an Express handler (reqand res).

• Mixing of previous:
  Put your static files in public folder.

You can use whatever you want in API.
Use export default if you like that way.
Or maybe async await makes you happier.
And the old ones will prefer module.exports...
Just keep doing your stuff and that's it, so simple!

Example

Given this tree:

.
|- api
|  |- index.js
|  |- users
|  |  `- [id].js
|  `- users.js
`- public
   `- index.html

Generated routes are:

/               # public
/api            # api/index.js
/api/users      # api/users.js
/api/users/:id  # api/users/[id].js

More features

For now it fits my use case, but you can contribute.
Anything accepted as long as it's kept simple/minimal.

License

This project is released under the AGPLv3 license.