pkg-and-serve

pkg-and-serve

This project allows you to package a static website as a single executable file. This executable will start a local server hosting your site, open it in the user's default browser, and shut itself down when the site is closed.

Note that this is most useful for quickly creating a shareable file for testing/portable deployment, and will usually be a less ideal user experience when compared with a full desktop application (e.g. with Electron).

Usage

As command-line tool

npx pkg-and-serve [input] [output]

As boilerplate project

1. clone
2. npm i
3. replace contents of ./app with your app
4. update name in pkg.config.json
5. add additional localhost endpoints in server.js if needed
6. npm run build
7. self-contained build outputs will be in ./build