Warning
This is a toy project being built entirely from a smartphone using Claude Code, as an experiment to see how far AI-assisted development can go. Do not run it outside of a sandboxed environment.
Serve is a small HTTP file server written in Go. It lets you serve local files and directories over HTTP, with the ability to dynamically mount and unmount paths at runtime through a control API, no restart needed.
It runs two servers: a public one (default port 8080) that serves your files, and a control server (default port 8081) that accepts mount/unmount/list commands.
Requires Go 1.24 or later.
go install github.com/tigerwill90/serve@latest
Start the server:
serve start
By default, the file server listens on 127.0.0.1:8080 and the control API on port 8081. You can change this with flags:
serve start --host 0.0.0.0 --port 9090 --control-port 9091
Mount a local directory or file on a route:
serve mount ./public /static
serve mount ./config.json /config
List active mounts:
serve list
Unmount a route:
serve unmount /static
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