sirv 
An optimized middleware & CLI application for serving static files~!
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sirv
GitHub · Package
The core module, returning a middleware function for use in Polka & Express-like frameworks. -
sirv-cli
GitHub · Package
The standalone CLI application, allowing for instant previews of static sites.
Benchmarks
All benchmarks are taken using the same Polka application on Node v8.9.0.
Please note that the actual numbers don't really matter; however, the percentage differences between them do!
File Exists
$ wrk -t8 -c100 -d10s http://localhost:3000/
serve-static
Thread Stats Avg Stdev Max +/- Stdev
Latency 8.74ms 596.13us 14.44ms 79.26%
Req/Sec 1.38k 56.04 1.45k 69.62%
109872 requests in 10.02s, 40.66MB read
Requests/sec: 10969.49
Transfer/sec: 4.06MB
sirv
Thread Stats Avg Stdev Max +/- Stdev
Latency 7.87ms 2.53ms 15.59ms 81.37%
Req/Sec 1.53k 69.36 2.07k 71.25%
122047 requests in 10.03s, 33.87MB read
Requests/sec: 12174.15
Transfer/sec: 3.38MB
File Missing
$ wrk -t8 -c100 -d10s http://localhost:3000/foobar
serve-static
Thread Stats Avg Stdev Max +/- Stdev
Latency 4.00ms 257.09us 7.81ms 76.04%
Req/Sec 3.01k 65.66 3.15k 74.62%
239800 requests in 10.01s, 26.30MB read
Non-2xx or 3xx responses: 239800
Requests/sec: 23962.46
Transfer/sec: 2.63MB
sirv
Thread Stats Avg Stdev Max +/- Stdev
Latency 2.89ms 256.70us 6.62ms 72.19%
Req/Sec 4.17k 157.94 4.93k 75.22%
334715 requests in 10.10s, 44.69MB read
Non-2xx or 3xx responses: 334715
Requests/sec: 33130.72
Transfer/sec: 4.42MB
License
MIT © Luke Edwards