Serve a site

While developing your static site, you can serve it locally with the Origami server.

site.ori

{
  about: {
    index.html: "<h2>About us</h2>"
  },
  index.html: "<h2>Our site</h2>"
}

http://localhost:5000/about/index.html

About us

You can serve a site defined in standard JavaScript, in the Origami dialect, in a data file, a folder – anything with a tree structure.

site.js

// Standard JS
export default {
  about: {
    "index.html": "<h2>About us</h2>", // Plain text, file buffer, etc.
  },
  // You can also use functions to generate content dynamically
  "index.html": () => `<h2>Our site</h2>`,
};

http://localhost:5000/index.html

Our site

The server follows a URL through that tree to find a resource.

http://localhost:5000/about/index.html

About us

site.ori

{
  about: {
    index.html: "<h2>About us</h2>"
  },
  index.html: "<h2>Our site</h2>"
}

This URL path has two keys: about and index.html.
Server looks at the site root for about, then inside that for index.html.
Server sends resulting resource to browser.

When serving locally, you can view an interactive diagram of your entire site!

http://localhost:5000/!svg