changkun/ser — explained in plain English
Analysis updated 2026-07-30 · repo last pushed 2021-09-30
Preview a static website you are building by serving its folder and opening it in your browser.
Share a folder of PDFs or images with colleagues on the same Wi-Fi during a meeting.
Download files from your desktop to your phone without a cable or cloud service.
| changkun/ser | aeneasr/github-trends | bxcodec/go-simple-flatbuffer | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| Language | Go | Go | Go |
| Last pushed | 2021-09-30 | 2020-12-18 | 2017-06-09 |
| Maintenance | Dormant | Dormant | Dormant |
| Setup difficulty | easy | easy | easy |
| Complexity | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 |
| Audience | developer | pm founder | developer |
Figures from each repo's GitHub metadata at analysis time.
Requires installing the Go toolchain to build from source, but the resulting binary has no runtime dependencies.
ser is a lightweight tool that lets you instantly turn any folder on your computer into a mini web server. If you've ever needed to quickly share files with someone on your network, or preview a website you're building, this tool makes it happen with a single command. It's designed as a faster, simpler replacement for a common Python command that does the same thing. Here's how it works: you open your terminal, navigate to the folder you want to share, and type ser. The program starts a local web server that hosts the contents of that folder. By default, it serves the current directory at localhost:8080, meaning you can open your browser and see the files immediately. You can also easily customize it with simple flags, if you want a different port, you just add -p 8088, or if you want to serve a different folder, you just pass the directory path. You can also expose it to your broader network by specifying a different address. This is useful for a few different scenarios. A web developer building a static site can use it to quickly see how their HTML and CSS look in a browser. If you're in a meeting and want to quickly share a folder of PDFs or images with colleagues on the same Wi-Fi, you can serve the directory and give them a URL. It's also handy for downloading files from your desktop to your phone without needing a cable or cloud service. The project is built with Go, which makes it a single, fast executable file with no external dependencies. Unlike the Python alternative it replaces, you don't need a specific programming language environment installed to run it.
ser is a tiny command-line tool that instantly turns any folder into a local web server, letting you share files or preview websites with one command. Built with Go, it requires no dependencies.
Mainly Go. The stack also includes Go.
Dormant — no commits in 2+ years (last push 2021-09-30).
Setup difficulty is rated easy, with roughly 5min to a first successful run.
Mainly developer.
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