Smallweb - Host websites from your internet folder

Warning ⚠️: Make sure to customize the domain and additionalDomains properties in the smallweb config (.smallweb/config.json) to your own needs. For more information check the documentation here.

Smallweb is a lightweight web server based on Deno. It draws inspiration from both legacy specifications like CGI, modern serverless platforms such as Val Town and static sites generators like Blot.im.

Smallweb maps domains to folders in your filesystem. For example, if you own the pomdtr.me domain:

• https://www.pomdtr.me maps to ~/smallweb/www
• https://example.pomdtr.me maps to ~/smallweb/example

Creating a new website is as simple as creating a folder and opening the corresponding URL in your browser. There's no need to configure a build step (unless you want to) or start a development server. Since servers are mapped to folders, you can manage them using standard Unix tools like cp, mv, or rm.

A self-hosted personal cloud

Each incoming HTTP request is sandboxed in a single Deno subprocess by the Smallweb evaluation server. If there are no incoming requests, no resources are used, making it an ideal solution for low-traffic websites.

Smallweb does not use Docker, but it still sandboxes your code using Deno. And if you website suddenly go viral, you can move your site to Deno Deploy in one command.

Installation

All the instructions are available in the docs.

Examples

All the websites on the smallweb.run domain are hosted using smallweb (including this one):

• https://docs.smallweb.run
• https://blog.smallweb.run
• https://excalidraw.smallweb.run

Since creating smallweb websites is so easy, you can even create super simple ones. For example, when I want to invite someone to the smallweb discord server, I just send him the link https://discord.smallweb.run, which maps to ~/smallweb/discord/main.ts on my vps.

export default {
  fetch: () => Response.redirect("https://discord.gg/BsgQK42qZe"),
};