static_file_handler 0.1.3

A static file Web server written in Dart

static-file-handler

A static file Web server written in Dart. It can be used as a stand-alone command line tool or imported as a package in a Dart application.

Usage

The static-file-handler can be used:

• From the command line to serve files from a directory
• To serve static files while your server side app takes care of all the dynamic requests
• To spawn a Web server and serve static content from your app

Serve a directory from the command line

You can serve files from a directory by running the Dart script located into bin:

cd static_file_handler/bin
dart static_file_handler.dart <root-path> <port>

Serve static files from your server app

Add the package to your pubspec.yaml file:

dependencies:
  static_file_handler: any

Create an instance of the static file handler using the named constructor serveFolder(String directory), then call handleRequest(HttpRequest request) to serve your files. In this way your server application can handle all the dynamic requests, and you won't have to take care of the static files.

StaticFileHandler fileHandler = new StaticFileHandler.serveFolder("/path/to/folder");

fileHandler.handleRequest(httpRequest);

You can see an example that uses the route package to feed the static file handler only with non-dynamic requests in the example/handle_request folder.

Spawn a Web server and serve static content from your app

If you just want to serve static files from your application, you can do as follows:

var fileHandler = new StaticFileHandler(path, port: port);
  
fileHandler.start();

When you are done you can stop the Web server using fileHandler.stop().

You can see an example in the example/serve_folder folder.

Adding custom MIME types

At the moment it is possible to add custom MIME types only through a method call (addMIMETypes(Map<String, String> types)), i.e. it's not possible to set custom MIME types when using the static file handler from the command line. This option will be available in a future release.

Issues

Please file issues in the Issue Tracker

Acknowledgements

Special thanks to Anders Johnsen for the original code.