Alternatives to miniserve
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. miniserve itself: install miniserve.
LidAngleSensor
tfw when you when your lid when uhh angle your lid sensor
chisel-tunnel
A fast TCP/UDP tunnel over HTTP
hcxtools
A small set of tools to convert packets from capture files to hash files for use with Hashcat or John the Ripper
logrotate
The logrotate utility is designed to simplify the administration of log files on a system which generates a lot of log files
bartycrouch
Localization/I18n: Incrementally update/translate your Strings files from .swift, .h, .m(m), .storyboard or .xib files
moor
Moor is a pager. It's designed to just do the right thing without any configuration
wrk
Modern HTTP benchmarking tool
Postgres
Mirror of the official PostgreSQL GIT repository. Note that this is just a *mirror* - we don't work with pull requests on github. To contribute, pleas
hey
HTTP load generator, ApacheBench (ab) replacement
dex2jar
Tools to work with android .dex and java .class files
oha
HTTP load generator · inspired by rakyll/hey with tui animation
autocannon
fast HTTP/1.1 benchmarking tool written in Node.js
confd
Manage local application configuration files using templates and data from etcd or consul
sccache
Sccache is a ccache-like tool. It is used as a compiler wrapper and avoids compilation when possible. Sccache has the capability to utilize caching in
pywhat
🐸 Identify anything. pyWhat easily lets you identify emails, IP addresses, and more. Feed it a .pcap file or some text and it'll tell you what it is!
wstunnel
Tunnel all your traffic over Websocket or HTTP2 - Bypass firewalls/DPI - Static binary available
MarkEdit
Just like TextEdit on Mac but dedicated to Markdown
gdown
Google Drive public file downloader when curl/wget fails
Syntax Highlight
Quick Look extension for highlight source code files on macOS 12 and later
ali
Generate HTTP load and plot the results in real-time
ansible-lint
ansible-lint checks playbooks for practices and behavior that could potentially be improved and can fix some of the most common ones for you
pgrok
Poor man's ngrok - a multi-tenant HTTP/TCP reverse tunnel solution through SSH remote port forwarding
QuickLook Video
Finder Thumbnails, Quick Look previews, Get Info metadata and previews for most types of audio and video files
xdg-ninja
A shell script which checks your $HOME for unwanted files and directories
How we picked these
We match on what the tool does and how it installs, then order by how widely each project is used. We're not saying these are better or worse than miniserve — that depends on what you're building. We're saying they're the projects people reach for in the same situations, and each one has an install command we checked against its documentation.
miniserve is developed by its own authors and this page is an independent reference; we are not affiliated with or sponsored by any project listed, and nothing here is a paid placement.