fileviewer

README

File viewer

This is a simple web server which renders text files (including HTML, JS, CSS) and Markdown files (dynamically rendered to HTML). Some use cases include quickly browsing local directories via a web browser, including Markdown files with relative links.

This is an early prototype, but you're welcome to play around with it and provide feedback, potential new use cases, etc.

Building

Build in the current directory:

$ go build .

Or you can build it from the top of the tree in a local checkout:

$ go build ./web/filevewer

Or you can build via Bazel:

$ bazel build //web/fileviewer

Or you can build it without having this repo locally:

$ go install github.com/mbrukman/notebook/web/fileviewer@latest

Running

Run locally with a custom web root (only accessible from localhost by default):

$ ./fileviewer -web-root ~/notebook

Expose it to everyone who can access this computer via the network:

$ ./fileviewer -web-root ~/notebook -host 0.0.0.0

Get a list of available flags:

$ ./fileviewer -help

Running via Bazel (this path is printed when you run the bazel build ... command above):

$ bazel-bin/web/fileviewer/fileviewer_/fileviewer [...flags]