A fast, minimalist HTTP server for serving static content.
## Run server listening on port 3000, serving locally from "./local/www".
dk run stevenxie/junior -p 3000:80 -v ./local/www:/www/Download executable from releases, then run:
## Run HTTP server on port 4200, serving from "/var/www".
./junior -p 4200 --root /var/www
## For more details:
./junior --helpjunior uses valyala/fasthttp behind
the scenes to give itself that extra edge, and is bootstrapped with
urfave/cli.
The Docker image stevenxie/junior features a version of junior
automatically built with Travis and compressed using
UPX to keep it extra light.
I made junior because I wanted a really fast, lightweight way of running
a static site behind the traefik reverse proxy.
I had tried lighttpd, but it proved to be
difficult to configure without trailing slashes, and although it was small, it
still felt too complicated and bloated for my use case.
So, I set out to build a custom solution, and this is the result of that:
