Usually I used to use a single server to host several developing or experimental projects. Thus I need a quick solution to forward different request to these services. I had tried to use nginx before. But now I have a easier way to do so.

1. require modules

   • underscode
   • node-http-proxy

     var http = require('http'), _ = require('underscore'), httpProxy = require('http-proxy');

2. config proxy(forward) and redirect mappings (hostname based)

   var proxyOptions = { router: { "api.testAppX.com" : 'localhost:2041', "dev.api.testAppX.com" : 'localhost:2042', "www.testAppY.com" : 'localhost:10520', "test.oldApps.com" : 'localhost:10520', 'bc.ryanwu.co' : 'localhost:8888' } }, redirectOptions = { 'olddomain.com' : 'http://newdomain.com/', 'www.olddomain.com' : 'http://newdomain.com/', 'blog.olddomain.com' : 'http://newdomain.com/blog/' };

In recent years, we got plenty of PaaS services which provide very simple and easy way to deploy our Node.JS services.

Usually after deploying my service, I have to use the command line tools or visit some very slow web pages to access the server logs. It’s really waste my time.

But today, I want to introduce a tool, Chrome Logger, it provides a way to display server logs into Chrome Developer Tool’s Console.

Install it, then visit my sample project on Heroku to see what’s going on.

• Sample Test Project on Github

Update 06/25 00:40:

• If you’re using ExpressJS, you can simple log your error like following error handling middleware

Update 06/25 01:50:

• After reading the Secret of Browser Developer Tool. I updated ChromeLogger(my forked repo) and express-chrome-logger(my forked repo). Now it supports TABLE display

Pull requests sent : chromelogger & express-chrome-logger.

Good luck to myself.

We all know Mac OS has a powerful sharing feature called AirDrop, but it too simple to share to multiple users. Sometimes we really need a simple web server for sharing our static resource, For instance,  HTML file, simple folder,  or some multimedia files.
 We can use Python on Ubuntu…

Python

Usage : 

python -m SimpleHTTPServer [port]

And I have to work under Micro$oft Windows sometimes…

F5 

http://www.getf5.com/

Install : 

• Download the F5 application

Usage : 

• Simply drag your folder or file into the application, it will shows the browsable URL.

But i prefer nodejs based…

NodeJS 

Simple http server

Install : 

npm install simple-http-server -g

nserver