outpost 0.2.2

Local javascript application development server

# Outpost

### local-javascript-application development server

Outpost is a file server with integrated proxy, filter options and debugging tools.

It is meant to be used for local javascript application development in combination with remote web api services. The build in proxy prevents browsers Cross Origin Resource Scripting restrictions by routing all requests through a single (local) address.

Static files can be run through filters before being send to the browser.

Implemented in pure python; with the pyramid web framework.

Please refer to Github for source codes: https://github.com/nive/outpost

## Features

• Serves static files from a directory

• Routes webservice requests through the proxy

• Insert html snippets in served files

• Interactive request hacking and tracing

• Several logging and debugging tools

• Filter support

• Easy installation, runs on any os

## Configuration

(See server.ini)

the directory to be served. Either a python module asset path, relative path or absolute path

server.directory = {{root}} server.defaultfile = index.html server.log_notfound = True server.content_type = text/html; charset=UTF-8

Activate interactive commandline request tracing in python debugger. Allows you to modify and pause requests before being returned to the browser. Takes a regular expression as parameter, the server breaks only if the re matches. e.g. .html for html files.

server.trace =

filter configuration. filters are loaded based on file extensions. empty means files without extension are filtered, too.

filter.extensions = .html <empty>

Points to a file and inserts the contents at the end of the html-head section of the served file. e.g. files/header.html

filter.appendhead =

Points to a file and inserts the contents at the end of the html-body section of the served file. e.g. files/body.html

filter.appendbody =

string replacement directive in json (can also be a list of directives): e.g. {“str”: “old string”, “new”: “new string”, “codepage”: “utf-8”}

filter.replacestr =

The url prefix used to route request through the proxy. By default urls starting with http://127.0.0.1:5556/__proxy/ will be handled by the proxy

proxy.route = __proxy

Activate interactive commandline request tracing in python debugger. Allows you to modify and pause calls to the webservice. Takes a regular expression as parameter, the server breaks only if the re matches. e.g. datastore/api/setItem.

proxy.trace =

## Installation

Short installation description:

• Install Python

• Install Python setuptools and virtualenv

• Create a virtual environment (virtualenv) directory named ‘outpost’ (or use your projects name) virtualenv outpost

• Install outpost from pypi.python.org bin/pip install outpost

• Create a new project by using the scaffold bin/pcreate -t default myApp

• Start the web server bin/pserve myApp/server.ini

If you are using a relative directory please make sure you start the webserver from the right working directory.

## Release

This is a beta release, though stable. And it is not meant to run as production server.