Webserver Alternatives

webserver reviews and mentions

• Show HN: Aberdeen – An elegant approach to reactive UIs
  10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 May 2025

  I am sure it is hard if you have never written an application without React, jQuery, whatever before. That doesn't make it hard though. It just means its something, only at present, uncomfortable.

  Here is how I do it. This is all the front end code for a large personal project.

  https://github.com/prettydiff/webserver/blob/main/lib/dashbo...

  My observation is that no matter how complicated and large the application gets anything that ultimately runs in the browser scales in size disproportionately slower in the browser code than elsewhere. This remains true no matter how much of the instruction set you intentionally try to put into the browser. That said, why even bother with this framework bullshit in the first place if the code it abstracts is never the primary problem in any given application? The larger the application gets the less significant the browser portion of that code becomes as a percentage of total application size.

• Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?
  132 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Aug 2024

  https://github.com/prettydiff/webserver

• Ask HN: Simple web server with drag and drop upload?
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Aug 2024

  192.168 is a non-routable address space. That means you are limited to the local network behind your router.

  1. Set up SMB sharing. It’s amazing and universal across different operating systems. Then you can go to \\192.168.whatever to access your files with drag and drop.

  2. Set up a netbios name for your new file server so that it can be as simple as \\x.

  3. Set up PiHole on your local network as a simple domain manager and fall back to 1.1.1.3 or 8.8.8.8 for free public DNS services. Then point your router to your server IP address for DNS resolution to custom domains. Now you can set up custom domains like www.x.

  4. You can write your own web server easily. I did. Now I have universal proxy and domain redirection via a simple config file. I can proxy anything from webpages to 20gb mp4s directly into the browser. This will get you started https://github.com/prettydiff/webserver/

  5. Create symlink between your web page root and your file share. Now your files are available via domain through the browser like https://www.x/files/

  Good luck

• Ask HN: Someone please give me a webapp idea to make for a school project
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Aug 2024

  Demo a new proxy that can handle absolutely anything. What looks cool is spinning up a bunch of Linus VMs and pushing them through a VNC to JS emulator so that they stream direct into a browser. Where you can make money is in repurposing that proxy to solve real business problems like authentication, load balancing, traffic redirection, vanity domain support, opening encrypted tunnels, and so forth.

  You can find 30 Linux VMs here, via docker compose: https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-webtop/

  Universal TCP/TLS proxy that can stream any protocol in a few lines as possible:

  https://github.com/prettydiff/webserver/blob/main/lib/transm...

  Good luck

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