Sherver: Bash lightweight web server

Re:Sherver: Bash lightweight web server by laumars on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @11:59AM (#29651949)

Not having your application packaged up for quick removal strikes me as more polluting. And I don’t really see how an independent solution with almost no documentation and zero configuration management support (eg Ansible) is easier to replicate than a battle tested industry standard with widespread support.

Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against building things for fun. But the technical arguments made for why this is preferable over an established solution doesn’t stack up.

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Re:Sherver: Bash lightweight web server by tjoff on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @12:13PM (#29652183)

I do.

Just as I would use this (would look into it more first though), the netcat trick mentioned here or python3 -m http.server over ever considering installing Ansible and/or nginx/apache.

Totally different use case though.

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Re:Sherver: Bash lightweight web server by laumars on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @12:25PM (#29652351)

If I was rolling my own and concerned about polluting, I’d favour a language like Rust or Go because I then don’t need to install the Python runtime, have random undocumented dependencies for the bash etc.

Or I’d use Docker.

But as said before, there’s no wrong answer here since it’s just a hobby project running on a HTPC.

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Re:Sherver: Bash lightweight web server by tjoff on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @01:33PM (#29653217)

With that I agree, I would only use python if it was already installed, and the assumption with bash was that everything needed was already installed.

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