Prerequisites

• Node >= 8.0.0

• NPM >= 5.0.0

Install

Install light

npm install light

and add the dev script to your package.json.

{
  // ...
  "scripts": {
    "start": "light start",
    "dev": "light dev"
  }
  // ...
}

Usage

Once you've installed light, all .js files under the routes folder will be used to serve pages.

To get started, populate routes/index.js.

const { createRoute } = require('light');
​
const { route } = createRoute('index');
​
module.exports = route(() => {
  return {
    hello: 'world',
  };
});

Run npm run dev to start the development server. You should see an output in your terminal similar to the one below.

› start      🔥 igniting the server 🔥
› listening  on port 3000
› hmr        starting the hot reloader
› hmr        watching for changes

View your resulting website at localhost:3000!

Conclusion

That's it! You now have a dev server that

• hot swaps to speed up development routes

• supports many different serverless and hosting platforms

• has very little magic behind the scenes, what you see in a route is what you get

Feel free to continue with the guides in the sidebar to understand more of the framework!