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<h2 id="http_server">http_server</h2>
<pre>http_server(<a href="#http_server.templated_args">templated_args</a>, <a href="#http_server.**kwargs">**kwargs</a>)</pre>
<p>This is a simple Bazel wrapper around the http-server npm package.</p>
<p>See <a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/http-server">https://www.npmjs.com/package/http-server</a></p>
<p>A typical frontend project is served by a specific server.
For typical example applications, our needs are simple so we can just use http-server.
Real projects might need history-server (for router support) or even better a full-featured production server like express.</p>
<p>This rule uses a modified http-server to support serving Brotli-compressed files, which end with a .br extension.
This is equivalent to gzip-compression support.
See <a href="https://github.com/alexeagle/http-server/commits/master">https://github.com/alexeagle/http-server/commits/master</a> which points to a modified ecstatic library.</p>
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