mvn-dev-proxy

A reverse proxy running as a maven plugin, providing useful features for web developers:

• A reverse proxy adding "no cache" HTTP headers to avoid cache issue during developement
• A file server. All requests are eby default handled by the reverse proxy. URL prefixs can be specified to serve static files.
• A livereload server. Your browser will reveice notifications when static files served by the file server have been modified. Check out the documenetation of project netty-livereload for further details on livereload

Usage

To start using this maven plugin, you just need to declare it in a maven pom file as follow:

<plugin>
    <groupId>com.github.alexvictoor</groupId>
    <artifactId>mvn-dev-proxy</artifactId>
    <version>0.1</version>
</plugin>

Then to launch the server:

mvn com.github.alexvictoor:mvn-dev-proxy:run

With this minimal configuration you get a reverse proxy that listen for requests on port 8081 and send requests to localhost:8080.
Below a more complete configuration example:

<plugin>
	<groupId>com.github.alexvictoor</groupId>
    <artifactId>mvn-dev-proxy</artifactId>
    <version>0.1</version>
    <configuration>
    	<targetPort>9000</targetPort>
    	<proxyPort>9001</proxyPort>            
    	<routes>
    		<route> webjar/mymodule | my_static_folder </route>   
    	</routes>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

With the above configuration, you get a reverse proxy listening on port 9001 and sending requests to localhost:9000. Also for requests on URLs prefixed by "webjar/mymodule" the reverse proxy will act as a file server, serving files from folder "my_static_folder". A livereload server is also started, sending notifications on each change for files in folder "my_static_folder".

Configuration options