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nano-web

🔥 Ultra-fast in-memory static file server for SPAs and static content

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4Mentions
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245GitHub stars
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🔥 Ultra-fast in-memory static file server for SPAs and static content

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by day4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2024-03-14 20:33:31 UTC to 2024-03-25 23:14:40 UTC.

01232024-03-14 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-03-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsMar 142024-03-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-03-16 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-03-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-03-17 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-03-17 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-03-18 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-03-18 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-03-19 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-03-19 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-03-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsMar 192024-03-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-03-21 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-03-21 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-03-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-03-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-03-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-03-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-03-24 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-03-24 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-03-25 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-03-25 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-03-26 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 commentsMar 25

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What Hacker News says

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antihero·Mar 25, 2024Submission

Show HN: Nano-web – a low latency one binary webserver designed for serving SPAs

I'd found that whilst there's a lot of good options out there for webservers, I was looking for something that is a single deployable binary for usage with containers or unikernels and solves some of the problems that you get with other setups like nginx. It uses a single compiled binary, it's going to have extremely low latency on account of caching all files in memory at runtime, and also the fun feature and really useful that's good for SPAs (e.g. Vite) or things like Astro is that you can inject configuration variables into it at runtime and access them from within your frontend code, so you don't have to rebuild any images for different environments as part of your CI. Whilst I'm sure this problem has been solved time and time again, I could never get a solution to be quite right. Also, serving things like Astro from S3 gets to be tr
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icky because CloudFront doesn't support index pages in subdirectories so the routing breaks. This fixes this. Use it or don't, I think it's a cool little project and it's been a while since I worked on and released something :)
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