docpad - Empower your website frontends with layouts, meta-data, pre-processors (markdown, jade, coffeescript, etc

•    CoffeeScript

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Hi! I'm DocPad, I streamline the web development process and help close the gap between experts and beginners. I've been used in production by big and small companies for over a year and a half now to create plenty of amazing and powerful web sites and applications quicker than ever before. What makes me different is instead of being a box to cram yourself into and hold you back, I'm a freeway to what you want to accomplish, just getting out of your way and allowing you to create stuff quicker than ever before without limits. Leave the redundant stuff up to me, so you can focus on the awesome stuff.Discover my features below, or skip ahead to the installation instructions to get started with a fully functional pre-made website in a few minutes from reading this.

docpad coffeescript static-site-generator preprocessor template-engine node contributions-discover document-management-system dms content-management-system cms generator static-file-server server web web-framework framework web-development development dev build-and-deployment builder build compiler compile parser parse renderer render templating templates language-agnostic website blog cli tool utility scaffold

electron-serve - Static file serving for Electron apps

•    Javascript

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Normally you would just use win.loadURL('file://…'), but that doesn't work when you're making a single-page web app, which most Electron apps are today, as history.pushState()'ed URLs don't exist on disk. It serves files if they exist, and falls back to index.html if not, which means you can use router modules like react-router, vue-router, etc.The directory to serve, relative to the app root directory.

electron-module electron serve static-file-server server single-page-app nodejs npm-package serving static file dev development react router web app history pushstate replacestate href url

bebop - 🎷 Jazzy build tool for sophisticated front-end development.

•    CoffeeScript

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Bebop is a rapid web development tool with a built-in http server, preprocessing workflow support and intelligent browser reloading, freeing you to hit the keys like an undead techno-zombie Charlie Parker. If you use bebop's static file serving feature it will automatically inject the Javascript required. If you want to enable something similar for your own connec/express apps you can use bebop.middleware, or link directly to bebop-client/bebop.js.

bebop reload live-reload apps developer-tools browser-reloading compilers preprocessors static-file-server vim web-development

serve - serve starts a simple temporary static file server in your current directory and prints your IP address to share with colleagues

•    PowerShell

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serve starts a simple temporary static file server in your current directory and prints your IP address to share with colleagues. It's based on a Gist by Paul Mach.

cli serve server file-server static-files static-file-server

mirage - A web DSL and command-line tool for easily writing simple HTTP server

•    Java

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A web DSL to easily create a simple HTTP server

command-line dsl http-server static-file-server