What is this?

A fork of Denoliver, which is a small, zero config dev & static file server with live reloading written in TypeScript for Deno intended for prototyping and Single Page Applications. This fork adds support for multiple ip-detection, along with more robust error handling.

Changes from Denoliver

Fixed handling of file paths with spaces in the name
Fixed credential handling and detection
Better IP detection using new Deno API’s
Improved hanlding of long file names (no more clipping)
Improved file explorer view (file type sorting, seperation of folder/files)

How do I install it?

deno install -n archy -A https://deno.land/x/archaeopteryx/mod.ts

Alternatively, list each permission:

deno install -n archy --allow-net --allow-read --allow-write --allow-run --allow-sys https://deno.land/x/archaeopteryx/mod.ts

Prerequisites

To run this you need to have Deno 1.0 or later installed.

Key Features

Dependency free! No third party dependencies.
Live reload
Supports client side routing for Single Page Applications.
Directory lists
Supports HTTPS
Allows for programmatic use as a module
Boilerplating for rapid prototyping.
Injectable HTTP request interceptors. (TS & JS)

How do I use it?

Serve your directory

$ archy ./demo

Options

Archaeopteryx comes with a couple of options to customize your experience.

-h                 # Help
-n                 # Disable live reload - Defaults to false
-s                 # Disable all output - Defaults to false
-p <PORT>          # Specify desired port - Defaults to 8080
-d                 # Debug for more verbose output - Defaults to false
-t                 # Use HTTPS - Requires a trusted self-signed certificate
-f                 # Files only (won't list directories)
-c                 # Use CORS - Defaults to false
--before=<..>   # Before request Interceptor(s)
--after=<..>    # After request Interceptor(s)
--certFile=<..>    # Specify certificate file - Defaults to archaeopteryx.crt
--keyFile=<..>     # Specify key file - Defaults to archaeopteryx.key
--entry=<..>       # Specify optional entrypoint - Defaults to index.html

Directory Listing

Archaeopteryx supports indexing of served directories and provides a simple interface, with dark mode support, for navigating a project folder.

Directory listing

Optional boilerplating

If the given directory doesn’t exist, archaeopteryx will ask you if you want to create a boilerplate. This will generate an a basic project folder and serve it for you. Very useful to get up and running quickly.

├── index.html
├── index.css
├── app.js

Interceptors

Archaeopteryx allows you to inject your own request interceptors to be fired before or after the HTTP requests has been handled by the server. This can be one or more functions which have access to the request object (instance of Deno.Request) and gets called in the order they are defined with the output of the previous function (piped). These functions must all return the request object.

Interceptors can be a single function, for example:

// before.ts

export default (req: ServerRequest) => {
  req.headers.set('Authorization', 'Bearer some-token')
  return req
}

or an array of functions:

const setHeaders = (req: ServerRequest) => {
  req.headers.set('Authorization', 'Bearer some-token')
  return req
}

const logRequestUrl = (req: ServerRequest) => {
  console.log(req.url)
  return req
}

export default [setHeaders, logRequestUrl]

of course this can also be used when using Archaeopteryx as a module:

import archy from "https://deno.land/x/archaeopteryx/mod.ts"

const server = archy({
  port: 6060,
  before: (req: ServerRequest) => {
    req.headers.set('Authorization', 'Bearer some-token')
    return req
  },
  // root?: string
  // port?: number
  // silent?: boolean
  // disableReload?: boolean
  // debug?: boolean
  // cors?: boolean
  // secure?: boolean
  // help?: boolean
  // dontList?: boolean
  // certFile?: string
  // keyFile?: string
  // entryPoint?: string
  // before?: string | Interceptor | Interceptor[]
  // after?: string | Interceptor | Interceptor[]
})

Configuration

If you want, you can place a configuration file called archaeopteryx.json in the folder you are serving to avoid having to use command line arguments to customize its behaviour. By default it will look like this:

{
  "root": ".",
  "port": 8080,
  "disableReload": false,
  "silent": false,
  "debug": false,
  "secure": false,
  "cors": false,
  "dontList": false,
  "before": "before.ts",
  "after": "after.ts",
  "certFile": "some_file.crt",
  "keyFile": "some_file.key",
  "entryPoint": "index.html"
}

API

Archaeopteryx can also be used as a module in any Deno project. This exposes an instance of Deno.Server.

The main function accepts the same config object as specified in the config file above.

import archaeopteryx from 'https://deno.land/x/archaeopteryx/mod.ts'

const server = archaeopteryx({ port: 6060, cors: true })

server.close() // Close the server

Serve over HTTPS

To use HTTPS you will need a trusted self-signed certificate. If you’re on macOS you can use This bash script to easily generate one.

Name the cert and key files archaeopteryx.crt and archaeopteryx.key and place them in your working dir. You can configure these names to be whatever you want with the config file, or the --certFile and --keyFile flags.

Disclaimer

This project is not intended for production use. It started out as a way for me personally to learn Deno, and is merely a tool to quickly get a file server up and running.

Acknowledgements

This project was heavily inspired by lukejacksonns fantastic Servor