Drinking the Node.js Kool-aid

I’ve been tinkering with Node.js for almost two years now. Node.js is a server-side javascript environment. Since Javascript is an evented language it is well suited to hosting and better suited to parallelism than some other languages which use a single locking process to execute. While it is possible to produce non-locking programs even in these environments it is much easier on Node.js.

This is the first library I’ve published for Node.js. It takes care of simple problem static file hosting. My package Host-With-Node creates a streaming web server in the user’s current working directory.

$ cd /root/of/your/awesome/webapp
$ host-with-node 80

Direct browser to http://localhost/index.html

Host-With-Node is distributed with NPM (the Node.js package manager) so installation is painless.

npm install -g host-with-node

• NPM Package Listing
• Github Project

Cheers!