Serverless has without a doubt helped deploying apps to the web. However sometimes it's useful to own the infra you're using. This is where we jump in, localhostjs allows you to use the localhost website in combination with working id and secret to deploy your app from a local machine using the expressjs server framework.

to install just install using npm or your package manager of choice:

npm install localhostjs 

Currently the framework only allows for http requests (namely GET and POST) but we are working on websockets as well (maybe in 1.0).

HTTP requests are easily instantiated using express syntax (it is actually exactly the same as we use express to handle http)

const app = require("localhostjs");
const exp = app.express
const path = require("path")
require("dotenv").config();


app.rest.use(exp.static(path.join(__dirname, "static")));


app.socket.on("event", data => {

    processData(data); 


    app.socket.send("event", {...somedata}, [
        data.id, //original sender
        receiver1, 
        receiver2, 
        receiver3, 
    ])

})

app.listen({
        id:process.env.id,
        secret:process.env.secret
}, "http://localhost:5000") 
//leave out url if you connect to localhostjs

To use the websocket functionality you have to use our websocket client lib (the file with cdn in the name...) or simply use the cdn:

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/Adotweb/localhostjs/localhost.cdn.js"></script>

in said client lib things behave similar to the socket.send and socket.on function in the server library:

socket.register() //connects to the currently connected url

socket.on("event", data => {

    handleData(data)

})

socket.send("event", {...somedata})