Cool project! Setting up a quick local HTML server can be annoying.

Alas it looks like it's web/electron based. :/ Downloading it and yep, 443.8 MB on MacOS. The Linux one is a bit better at 183.3 MB.

Electron really should get a kickback from disk manufacturers! ;)

Shameless plug, I've been working on a HTML inspired lightweight UI toolkit because I'm convinced we can make these sort of apps and they should only be ~10-20 MB [1] with nice syntax, animation, theming, etc. I'm finally making a suite of widgets. Maybe I can make a basic clone of this! Bet I could get in < 10MB. :)

1: https://github.com/elcritch/figuro

Because projects like these were missing back then, I got creative with nginx and do not need any config changes to serve new projects:

  server {
    listen 80;
    server_name ~^(?<sub>\w+)(\.|-)(?<port>\d+).*; # projectx-20201-127-0-0-1.nip.io
    root sites/$sub/public_html;
    try_files $uri @backend;
    location @backend {
      proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:$port;
      access_log logs/$sub.access;
    }
  }

Configuration is done via the domain name like projectx-20205-127-0-0-1.nip.io which specifies the directory and port.

All you need to do is create a junction (mklink /J domain folder_path). This maps the domain to a folder.

This looks nice with a friendly UI. I've been very happy with Caddy[1], but this seems like something I might recommend to someone that is new to the web environment.

[1] https://caddyserver.com/docs/quick-starts/static-files

Electron? It's unfortunate how bad programming has become. Over 100MB for a program that could be written with native code under 1MB.