restfs exposes your file system as a rest api via nodejs. this is not a static file server, but instead lets you browse stats, and manipulate files through arbitrary paths.

$ npm install restfs

you can create a restfs api using the standalone server or including it in your own. either method exposes a standard REST interface which currently implements the following methods:

• GET /path/to/directory - returns stats for a collection of files
• GET /path/to/file - returns stats for a specific file
• POST /path/to/file - create a specific file
• DELETE /path/to/file - removes a specific file

to start a standalone server, run restfs. dir and port options are available, which default to process.cwd() and 8000 respectively. to browse a given directory from http://localhost:8000/, simply run

$ restfs

you can provide restfs as middleware to your http, connect, or express server. the restfs function accepts two arguments: path, and api_base which default to / and / respectively. for instance, to access the directory foo under my home directory /home/catshirt, via http://localhost/foo

var http = require('http'),
    restfs = require('../lib/restfs'),
    server = http.createServer();

server.on('request', restfs('/home/catshirt'));
server.listen(80);