Pluggable dev servers

[bennypowers]

Over at RHDS we're using spandx to allow us to develop with our local sources against redhat.com 'in production'.

We do this by proxying certain requests to a local dev server (web-dev-server)

If spandx' browsersync integration was pluggable, could be make do with a single dev server instance, and thus a single command, without need for terminal multiplexers?

relevant code: https://github.com/redhataccess/spandx/blob/34c5a64ce47df7a13b2bc107a4d408d14ee5e181/app/spandx.js#L197-L229

Y THO

some practical issues that came up:

• bs uses connect middleware, which is old and boring (that's both a pro and a con i suppose) whereas wds uses koa middleware (async-friendly)
• running two dev servers in parallel is awkward, I'd rather not have to bust out the terminal multiplexer to run this
• there's some duplication between the routing table and import maps that maybe using wds-only could solve

[mwcz]

Sorry I didn't see this sooner. spandx is in full maintenance mode and I don't anticipate adding any new features myself. That said, if you want to give it a go, I'd be happy to review and merge this feature.

I typically prefer the terminal multiplexer approach, because it makes interpreting log output so much easier.