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Harp

The open source, static web server with built-in preprocessing.
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What is Harp?

It is a production-ready web server. Rapidly build static sites and client-side applications using Markdown, Sass, CoffeeScript, and more—no configuration necessary.
Harp is a tool in the Web Servers category of a tech stack.
Harp is an open source tool with 5K GitHub stars and 342 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Harp's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Harp?

Companies
3 companies reportedly use Harp in their tech stacks, including bigcreator.dev, Redhatgov.Github.Io, and Lmb.

Developers
8 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Harp.

Harp's Features

  • Easy installation, easy to use
  • Fast and lightweight
  • Robust (clean urls, intelligent path redirects)
  • Built in pre-processing
  • First-class layout and partial support
  • Built in LRU caching in production mode
  • Can export assets to HTML/CSS/JS
  • Does not require a build steps or grunt task

Harp Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Harp?
NGINX
nginx [engine x] is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server, written by Igor Sysoev. According to Netcraft nginx served or proxied 30.46% of the top million busiest sites in Jan 2018.
Apache HTTP Server
The Apache HTTP Server is a powerful and flexible HTTP/1.1 compliant web server. Originally designed as a replacement for the NCSA HTTP Server, it has grown to be the most popular web server on the Internet.
Amazon EC2
It is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.
Firebase
Firebase is a cloud service designed to power real-time, collaborative applications. Simply add the Firebase library to your application to gain access to a shared data structure; any changes you make to that data are automatically synchronized with the Firebase cloud and with other clients within milliseconds.
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
It is a comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally.
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Harp's Followers
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