Http-server: Document clearly what is added to ecstatic

[laughinghan]

What exactly does this add to ecstatic? As far as I can tell, ecstatic also works as "a simple zero-configuration command-line http server". The only thing I've noticed is that http-server logs requests whereas ecstatic doesn't. Is this just a thin wrapper?

[derhuerst]

https://github.com/indexzero/http-server/blob/b456b77/lib/http-server.js#L60-L131

[laughinghan]

I see: logging, CORS, robots.txt, and then something about proxies? Is that accurate? Would love to see that documented.

[derhuerst]

Is this sufficient? https://github.com/indexzero/http-server#available-options

[laughinghan]

A majority of those are also ecstatic features, is what I'm saying. I'm
wondering which of those are actually provided by this library.

Han

On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 2:38 AM, Jannis Redmann [e-mail]
wrote:

Is this sufficient? https://github.com/indexzero/
http-server#available-options

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[thornjad]

@laughinghan you're right that http-server is essentially a wrapper around ecstatic. Ecstatic, however, is designed to be middleware. You can use it in Express or with the internal http directly. http-server, on the other hand, is designed to be a server itself, running from CLI. It also adds some value:

• No configuration needed, the defaults are designed with the user in mind
• Ability to use a proxy
• Logging, including requests and all interfaces (with colors!)
• Ability to open a browser automatically
• Serving robots.txt
• CORS headers
• More features on the way!