Minimalist Web Server

As modern browsers are restricting access from HTML pages to local files, it is becoming necessary to serve them from a web server. For this purpose it is an overkill to install or even just set up a site in Apache or IIS. In the past I've used Tiny Web Server (link) but nowadays there are better options.
Currently, my preferred option is using Node.js with node-static (link).
See the code below or click here to see it on Github.Gist.

	var static = require('node-static');
	//
	// Create a node-static server instance to serve the current folder
	//
	var file = new(static.Server)(__dirname);
	require('http').createServer(function (request, response) {
	request.addListener('end', function () {
	//
	// Serve files!
	//
	file.serve(request, response);
	});
	}).listen(8080);

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This requires node-static to be installed. The most convenient way is to add it as a dependency to the package.json, like this:

	{
	"name": "minimal-web-server",
	"version": "1.0.0",
	"dependencies" : {
	"node-static" : "*"
	}
	}

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and run "npm install".
Then, simply add index.html or other static files and the server is up and running.