serve-bin

A zero-configuration plugin system for on-the-fly building and serving assets for development.

Installing

serve-bin is available as an npm package.

Usage

Add serve-bin to the package.json as follows:

{
  "name": "project",
  "private": true,
  "scripts": {
    "start": "serve"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "serve-bin": "^0.0.1"
  }
}

Then add plugins for each desired asset build workflow. Existing plugins are listed below. By default, serve-bin will serve static files with the src directory as root.

From the command line, run:

npm start

Plugins

• serve-esnext compiles ES.next modules.

Writing Plugins

Plugins must have a name that starts with serve-.

{
  "name": "serve-esnext",
  "main": "src/index.js"
}

Plugins must export an Express middleware.

export default async function(request, response, next) {
  // ...
}

Development

Getting Started

The application requires the following external dependencies:

• Node.js

The rest of the dependencies are handled through:

npm install

Run tests with:

npm test