HTTPS Express Static Server with Cache and GZIP

What

HTTPS or HTTP Express Server, that caches files in memory and delivers them as GZIP. This gives blistering serve speed.

How

Server

Express as an underlying server. HTTPS is optional. To revert to plain old HTTP just remove the https entry from your config file.

Cache

Using connect-static on server startup it will immediately scan the requested directory, gzip all the files, and save the cache into memory, where it will forever remain. When a request hits the middleware it never touches the file system. If gzipping a file results in >= 95% of the file size of the original file size, connect-static discards the gzipped data and instead serves the file directly.

Supported HTTP Headers

• ETag
• If-None-Match
• If-Modified-Since
• Accept-Encoding
• Content-Encoding

Logging

Logging comes from Winston and logs to a file and the console.

Usage

Clone the repo:

git clone https://github.com/drewdotpro/https-express-static-server-cache-and-gzip.git

Install NPM dependencies

npm install

Add your files to public

Server will work out-of-the-box on Ubuntu in development mode, and HTTPS deliver your files from the public folder.

npm run dev

If you wish to configure development differently just edit config/development.js If you wish to set up a production version, copy config/development.js to config/production.js and edit it. Start Production with

npm run start

Configuration

Notes have been made against the files in config.json