Top 6 static-file Open-Source Projects

miniserve

51 5,585 9.1 Rust

🌟 For when you really just want to serve some files over HTTP right now!

Project mention: Fastest Way to Serve Large Files | /r/linux_programming | 2023-06-13

go-bindata

0 339 2.9 Go

A small utility which generates Go code from any file. Useful for embedding binary data in a Go program. (by kevinburke)
InfluxDB

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Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
flask-static-digest

6 153 3.6 Python

Flask extension to help make your static files production ready by md5 tagging and gzipping them.
serve

2 146 0.0 Go

serve starts a simple temporary static file server in your current directory and prints your IP address to share with colleagues (by philippgille)

Project mention: static-server: an HTTP server in Go for static content | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-09-16

There are many projects doing the exact same thing. Here's one approach from myself, but haven't updated since 2019:
https://github.com/philippgille/serve
One difference is that it can create a TLS cert for you, instead of having to supply one via CLI arg.
I don't recommend using it in its current form though due to its (the compiled binaries') Go version being outdated.

django-cloudinary-storage

3 124 0.0 Python

Django package that provides Cloudinary storages for both media and static files as well as management commands for removing unnecessary files.
exembed

5 30 1.8 Go

Go Embed experiments

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).