web-server-chrome

Web Server for Chrome is back, rebuilt as "ok200" now that Google killed Chrome Apps. The original author took the old one-click static file server, directory listings, MIME types, ETags, and reworked it into a cross-platform set of tools: a Tauri desktop app, a Node CLI you run as ok200, an Android app, and a launcher extension. It does the simple thing well: serve a folder over HTTP without ceremony.

The appeal is exactly what it always was, a static server you can point at a directory and hit from a browser, now living outside the dead Chrome App platform. The old version is preserved on a legacy branch for anyone who still needs it.

Free under MIT, for solo devs and teams. It's the graphical, click-to-serve cousin of python -m http.server, npx serve, and http-server.

The catch is that it's mid-transition. The original Chrome App is gone, and the replacements are early, the desktop app is around v0.1.5, and the implementation is intentionally spread across TypeScript, Rust, and Kotlin for the different platforms. If you just need to serve files fast, the CLI tools already do it. If you want the polished desktop app experience the Chrome version had, it's still getting there.