browserify development and production server

npm install --save uify-server

part of uify@1

const { createServer } = require('http')
const Send = require('http-sender')()

const uifyServer = UifyServer({
  entry: join(__dirname, 'browser.js'),
  debug: process.env.NODE_ENV === 'development'
  optimize: process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production'
})

const server = createServer((req, res) => {
  uifyServer(req, res, {}, Send(req, res))
}).listen(8080)

see ./example for a complete example with pretty logs.

to run the example:

# in development (debug, watch, and live enabled)
NODE_ENV=development npm start

# in production (optimize and cache enabled)
NODE_ENV=production npm start

UifyServer receives an options object:

• entry: path to the entry source file for browserify bundler (default: "./")

• debug: enable source maps (default: true)

• watch: enable bundle watcher (watchify) (default: true)

• live: enable live reload for development (default: true)

• livePort: a custom port to bind LiveReload server

• optimize: optimize bundle for production (default: false)

• cache: bundle once and cache for production (default: false)

• pushState: support history.pushState by returning index.html on any requests that accept html (default: true)

• bundler: a browserify-compatible bundler constructor (default: require('browserify'))

• bundlerArgs: an object of arguments to pass to the bundler

• script: the absolute path to serve the JavaScript bundle (default: "/bundle.js")

• css: optional Cascading StyleSheet in default index.html

• title: optional title for the default index.html

• lang: optional language for the default index.html (default: "en")

• head: optional string to insert into the default index.html between and (default: "<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">")

• body: optional string to insert into the default index.html between and

• favicon: optional favicon url for default index.html page

• cwd: current working directory to base relative paths on

• log: a pino-compatible logger instance

UifyServer returns a function of shape (req, res, context, next) => { next(err, value) }

The Apache License

Copyright © 2017 Michael Williams

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

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