Being amazed by software development

[nih]

http://www.robg3d.com/?p=1276

[RyanZAG]

This is the most confusing thing I've seen all week. I don't actually understand what problem this is solving. Is this not equivalent to taking your html files, putting them in /var/www and then starting up apache ?

[ronaldx → RyanZAG]

I understood exactly the same as you.

This doesn't exist as a service because it's the default thing that apache does.

[buzzkills → ronaldx]

Yes, this is mod_autoindex, right?

[ricardobeat → RyanZAG]

I don't get the point either, how is POSTing JSON + a zip file easier than using scp/rsync to copy html to the server? I guess the author has a very specific/restricted environment that the post fails to describe.

[kayoone → RyanZAG]

it seems to also enable POSTing new docs and DELETEing them but yeah, if this is meant to be self-hosted anyway, i am missing the point.

[cmelbye → kayoone]

Apache, SSH, and/or rsync all support forms of that.

[FollowSteph3]

This feels like a product plug that's being upvoted. The article doesn't really make sense as a whole...

[_random_ → FollowSteph3]

It's enough to mention that you like Linux and HTML5 to get all the upvotes...

[ushi → _random_]

I like Linux and HTML5.