Creating Your Own Static Site Host

In this video, I will show you how to create your own mini version of Netlify. It's essentially a single page application host that can serve all of your projects. You will be able to deploy your code to it with a single command.

Here's the Node server code:

const fs = require('fs');
const express = require('express');
const app = express();
const port = 3000;

app.get('/', (req, res) => res.send('Hello World!'));

app.listen(port, () =>
  console.log(`Example app listening at http://localhost:${port}`),
);

fs.readdir(__dirname + '/projects', function (err, projects) {
  projects.forEach((project) => {
    app.use(`/${project}`, express.static(`./projects/${project}`));

    app.get(`/${project}/*`, (req, res) =>
      res.sendFile(
        require('path').join(`${__dirname}/projects/${project}/index.html`),
      ),
    );
  });
});

Here's the Bash / zsh function:

function deploy () {
  ssh root@yourserverip "mkdir -p ~/server/projects/$1" &&
    scp -r $2/* root@yourserverip:~/server/projects/$1 
}

Usage: deploy url_path static_build_folder