completed basic usage.

.gitignore

@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ bower_components
 
 # Compiled binary addons (https://nodejs.org/api/addons.html)
 build/Release
+build
 
 # Dependency directories
 node_modules/

index.js

@@ -0,0 +1,112 @@
+
+const chalk = require("chalk");
+const httpServer = require("http-server");
+const os = require("os");
+
+/*
+  Starting up http-server, serving ./
+  
+  http-server settings:
+  CORS: disabled
+  Cache: 3600 seconds
+  Connection Timeout: 120 seconds
+  Directory Listings: visible
+  AutoIndex: visible
+  Serve GZIP Files: false
+  Serve Brotli Files: false
+  Default File Extension: none
+  
+  Available on:
+    http://192.168.56.1:8080
+    http://192.168.1.109:8080
+    http://127.0.0.1:8080
+  Hit CTRL-C to stop the server
+  
+  */
+
+const portInt = parseInt(process.argv[2]);
+
+const port = isNaN(portInt) ? 99 : portInt;
+const gzip = true;
+const https = false;
+const root = "./";
+
+function logErrorAndHold(error) {
+  console.log(error);
+  require('readline')
+    .createInterface(process.stdin, process.stdout)
+    .question("Press [Enter] to exit...", function () {
+      process.exit();
+    });
+}
+
+// https://stackoverflow.com/a/29362887/8075004
+process.on('uncaughtException', logErrorAndHold);
+
+mainApp().catch(logErrorAndHold);
+
+function requestLogger(req, res, error) {
+  const date = new Date().toJSON();
+  // var ip = argv['log-ip'] ? req.headers['x-forwarded-for'] || '' + req.connection.remoteAddress : '';
+  const ip = req.headers['x-forwarded-for'] || '' + req.connection.remoteAddress;
+  if (error) {
+    console.log(
+      '[%s] %s "%s %s" Error (%s): "%s"',
+      date, ip, chalk.red(req.method), chalk.red(req.url),
+      chalk.red(error.status.toString()), chalk.red(error.message)
+    );
+  }
+  else {
+    console.log(
+      '[%s] %s "%s %s" "%s"',
+      date, ip, chalk.cyan(req.method), chalk.cyan(req.url),
+      req.headers['user-agent']
+    );
+  }
+}
+
+async function mainApp() {
+
+  const server = httpServer.createServer({
+    root: root,
+    logFn: requestLogger,
+    https: https,
+    cors: true,
+    gzip: gzip,
+    cache: 2,
+    before: ""
+  });
+
+  console.log("%s %s",
+    chalk.yellow(`Starting up http-server, serving `), chalk.cyan(`${root}\n`));
+
+  try {
+    server.listen(port, () => {
+      const obj = os.networkInterfaces();
+      const networks = [];
+      const protocolStr = https ? "https://" : "http://";
+      for (const key of Object.keys(obj)) {
+        const valuesArray = obj[key];
+        valuesArray.forEach(v => {
+          if (v.family === "IPv4") {
+            const line = `${protocolStr}${v.address}:${port}`;
+            networks.push({ url: line, key: key });
+          }
+        });
+      }
+
+      console.log(chalk.yellow(`Available on:`));
+
+      const lengthOfLongestURL = Math.max(...networks.map(x => x.url.length));
+      networks.forEach(x => {
+        console.log("  " + x.url.padEnd(lengthOfLongestURL, " ") + `  ${x.key}`);
+      });
+
+      console.log(`Hit CTRL - C to stop the server\n`);
+    });
+  }
+  catch (eerr) {
+    console.log(eerr);
+  }
+}
+