tinyhttp

Performant static file HTTP server using Nim for speed.

Features

• High performance
• Extremely lightweight (~1MB once compiled)
• Render Markdown as HTML (MarkDeep)

Description

tinyhttp gets its speed from Nim. Nim is a powerful language with the speed of C and the expressiveness of Python. Fabio Cevasco created a tiny HTTP server in Nim called nimhttpd. Make sure to head over to his repository and star it 🙂. Nimporter (a library that allows you to directly-import Nim files), made the porting process almost effortless.

Installation

In order to run tinyhttp, you must install:

• The Nim programming language
• Nimpy (nimble install nimpy)
• Nimporter (pip install nimporter)

$ pip install git+https://github.com/Pebaz/tinyhttp

Usage

You can use tinyhttp in 3 different ways:

• As a library, for an ultra-lightweight HTTP server
• As a runnable module
• From the CLI

Library

import time
from tinyhttp import HttpServer

server = HttpServer(log=True)
server.start()
time.sleep(10)  # Do other things while serving in background
server.stop()

Runnable Module

$ python3 -m tinyhttp --host "0.0.0.0" --port 9090 --dir ../../

CLI

$ tinyhttp --host "0.0.0.0" --port 9090 --dir ../../