delitescere/shimmercat repository overview

⁠ShimmerCat

This is an unofficial Docker container for ShimmerCat.

Are you a performance-conscious web developer? Then ShimmerCat is the tool for you. Unlike general purpose web servers, ShimmerCat seeks to dramatically reduce the amount of work that it takes to create a web application that loads in a fraction of the time. Start developing fast-loading HTTPS+HTTP/2 websites with a tool for the purpose!

See https://www.shimmercat.com/⁠ for more information.

⁠Build

To build the image you must git lfs checkout beforehand in order to resolve the binary artifacts.

⁠Use

The default is to run in "devlove" mode in the foreground, so use:

docker run --rm --volume $PWD:/srv/www -p 443:4043 shimmercat

To query that instance using curl, where <hostname> is one listed in devlove.yaml (e.g. localhost)

curl --cacert .config/mousebox/mousebox_ca_root_*.pem -I https://<hostname>/

⁠Notes

• If you change <hostname> in devlove.yaml, you'll have to rm -rf .shimmercat.loves.devs. It will be re-created next run using the new host name.