Sometimes, you just need to serve some static content from a directory. When that happens, python -m SimpleHTTPServer or php -S is pretty handy, but what if you want a little more?

This script will handle all of those, but it will also allow you to minify LESS/SASS/SCSS and run Python scripts.

server.py requires a recent version of Python 3.

1. Install the dependencies: python -m pip install -r requirements.txt (may require doas or sudo)
2. Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/rnelson/server.git
3. Create a symlink: ln -s /path/to/server/server.py ~/bin/server

Whatever directory you are in when you run the script is the root. This is now available at http://localhost:9000.

For LESS/SASS/SCSS files, give them the appropriate extension (.less, .sass, .scss) and they'll automatically be minified.

The Python script support relies on globals() to pass data from the executing script back to server. Two values are read, output and output_type (the latter defaults to text/html) to determine what to display and how to display it. The following is a trivial example:

#! env python

content = 'Hello, {}!'.format('World')
globals()['output'] = content
globals()['output_type'] = 'text/plain'  # defaults to 'text/html'

Released under the MIT License.