Http server in plugin

Ivan3k

Hello.
I want to implement a simple web server in my plugin. How should I do this?

marcelr

Old post, but in case anyone else is trying to do this...

I haven't had any luck installing express or other server libraries, but you can start one using @skpm/child_process, spawn and a Ruby one-liner:

const { spawn } = require('@skpm/child_process')

const PORT = 8080;
const PATH = ".";

export function startServer() {

    console.log("Starting server...")

    const ls = spawn("ruby", ["-run", "-ehttpd", PATH, "-p" + PORT]);

    ls.stdout.on("data", data => {
        console.log(`stdout: ${data}`);
    });

    ls.stderr.on("data", data => {
        console.log(`stderr: ${data}`);
    });

    ls.on('error', (error) => {
        console.log(`error: ${error.message}`);
    });

    ls.on("close", code => {
        console.log(`child process exited with code ${code}`);
    });

}