[appserver-io/appserver] Command line tool to start simple scripts

[wagnert]

It would be helpful, to have a command line tool that enables a developer to start in a really minimal bootstrap that allows easy creation of all containers to execute a PHP script like node.js for example.

To implement a simple ServletContainer (HttpServer) instance you can implement the following script:

$server = $this->createContainer('ServletContainer', function ($req, $res) {
    $res->addHeader('Status', 200);
    $res->addHeader('Content-Type': 'text/plain');
    $res->setContent('<p>Hello World</p>');
});

$server->listen(8586, '0.0.0.0');

after that someone can start the script directly from the commandline by typing

/opt/appserver/bin/node example.php

The script will automatically executed again if the file was edited, like the watch behavior compass has. Optional: The users system default browser will be opened if the script starts a HttpServer Container.

[wick-ed]

Good addition would be the ability to automatically detect if the command is started within a serveable environment like e.g. gulp does it. E.g.

cd ~/myWebApp
/opt/appserver/bin/node -w

The command would automatically pick up the current directory, determine if is contains a serveable application and will start using it as webapp directory