sparge

Sparge is a Go based SPA (single page web application) server.

The purpose of sparge is to allow single page frameworks like Aurelia, Angular, and React to use "pretty urls" (urls without the #) by serving the index.html file from the assets directory whenever a static file is not found. Sparge will, however, return 404 if an extension is used in the path, such as favicon.png, and that file is not found.

1. Look for the path in the assets directory and return that static asset if it exists.
2. If the path contains no extension (e.g., .html, .png, .jpg), then return index.html from the assets directory.
3. Otherwise, return a 404.

Dependencies

Sparge is built with the following dependencies:

• labstack/echo
• urfave/cli
• glide

Build

The following are instructions to build the sparge binary. This project uses glide to manage dependencies.

$ cd $GOPATH
$ go get github.com/BrewdHQ/sparge
$ cd sparge
$ cd src/BrewdHQ/sparge
$ glide install
$ go build

Usage

Put sparge in your path and run sparge help for commands and flags.

Commands:

$ sparge help
NAME:
   sparge - A SPA (single-page application) server

USAGE:
   sparge [global options] command [command options] [arguments...]

VERSION:
   1.0.0

COMMANDS:
     start    Start the SPA server
     help, h  Shows a list of commands or help for one command

GLOBAL OPTIONS:
   --help, -h     show help
   --version, -v  print the version

Start:

$ sparge help start
NAME:
   sparge start - Start the SPA server

USAGE:
   sparge start [command options] [arguments...]

OPTIONS:
   --dir value, -d value   (default: "./public")
   --port value, -p value  (default: "8080")

Sparge will serve assets from the ./public directory by default. Be sure to specifiy an alternate directory as needed.

Version History

1.5.0

• Use the lastest from echo server master branch
  • Fixes bug with https redirect loop when server is behind a proxy

1.4.0

• Added flag and env var to specify the log format. See Echo Logger Middleware for details on formatting.

1.3.0

• Added redirect-https flag
• Removed CORS (doesn't make sense for the SPA server, should be handled on the API server)

1.2.0

• Allow settings to be configured with environment variables

0.2.0

• Switched from gin-gonic to echo
• Added a startup banner

0.1.0

The first version

• Start server with a custom port
• Start server with a custom assets directory