Serving static content

While Fiction is mainly focused on BashX, it has support for many other content types and routes

Static content and HTML

You can serve files content using fiction.serveFile function:

fiction.serveFile "<file>" "<routeAlias?>" "<content type?>"

This function creates a route which points to function that returns file’s contents with it’s type

You can serve static HTML the same way by using text/html as content type

fiction.serveFile "index.html" "/" "text/html"
fiction.server "0.0.0.0:8080"

This code would show index.html as HTML (text/html) on root route (/)

Directories

Fiction supports directory file listing using fiction.serveDir

Let’s say we have directory test:

• Directorytest/

  • test.txt
  • test.png
  • index.sh

fiction.serveDir "./test" "/files" false true

This would create following routes:

• /files: file tree of ./test
• /files/test.txt: contents of test.txt
• /files/test.png: image
• /files/index.sh: contents of index.sh