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Seems like most of the people in these comments have missed the point, as while I also lament the use of Electron, pasting one-liner scripts does not obviate the usefulness of this project. Clearly the point of this project is not just about setting up a simple webserver, but to provide a quick and easy gui to configure that webserver, and there's a fair amount that it allows you to configure. Your one-liner that does nothing but pipe static files as a response is not that. If that's all you need, great, then this project is not for you and that's okay.

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Missed opportunity to actually server the UI via the webserver in first place, as we used to do 25 years ago like with IIS Web management UI in my default browser.

for a webserver with an awesome GUI served through the web i recommend roxen. it is not a webframework requiring you to write code to serve content, but it serves static files out of the box and let's you add dynamic content on top of that. and it can outperform apache and other webservers depending on your workload.

Written in Pike, interesting.

to anyone concerned about needing to learn a new language, unless you want to build very custom dynamic sites you don't. to conveniently serve static files you won't ever have to touch the code. just like you wouldn't do that with apache or nginx.

and even if you do want something dynamic, a lot of dynamic features can be had by embedding custom tags in html. still no code required.

if you have concerns about pike as a language for the server implementation itself, pike is a very performant language with a long history being used in high profile sites and services. both pike and roxen go back to the early 90s.

and if you do want to create custom features and need help you can hire me. i am looking for work (pike,js,ts,python,php,ruby,go,... ;-)

Lol. I used to work at an IIS shop. 100% of engineering thought using it was a bad idea. Any one of us could configure apache correctly in a few minutes, but we ultimately had to hire a full time Microsoft guru to keep IIS (and the rest of the ecosystem that implies) running. He was a pleasure to work with, but it wasn’t clear why his job existed.

Anyway, Web UI != easy to administer.

Because shipping the browser alongside the server as means to provide a Web UI, it is a much better option. /s

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