binserve is a fast static web server with TLS (HTTPS), Routing, Hot Reloading, Caching, Templating, and Security in a single-binary you can set up with zero code.
It’s built from the ground up for self-hosters with performance, ease of use, and portability in mind.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Fast: Binserve is designed to be performant,courtest of Actix-Web and DashMap for handling routes and the cache storage. (See Benchmarks)
- Portability: Binserve is cross-platform and portable to any major operating system, like it can run on your Android phone!
- Routing: Routing is simply matching a URI path to a file or a directory in a JSON file.
- Templating: You can write templates and partials using Handlebars.
- Hot Reload: You can reload your configuration (routes) and static files with no downtime.
- Caching: Binserve’s performance is achieved due to minimization of Disk I/O operations at runtime (with fast_mem_cache enabled) and serving static files from memory. On the client-side, Cache-Control, Etag, and Last-Modified are used.
- Security: Prevents common attack vectors like Directory Traversal and Symlink Attacks.
Website: github.com/mufeedvh/binserve
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Developer: Mufeed VH
License: MIT License
binserve is written in Rust. Learn Rust with our recommended free books and free tutorials
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