README.md

Run a backend with your web app

npm start

Tinybuild runs prepare.js, starts backend.js, waits for its HTTP readiness check, then builds and serves the page. Follow the printed web URL.

Edit the response in backend.js and save. Its task restarts automatically; refresh the page to request the new response. Ctrl+C stops tinybuild and the backend it owns. npm run build only builds the frontend and starts no services.

tasks in tinybuild.config.js describes the commands, dependency order, readiness and watched files. Add another service that depends on api when it needs that backend running first. Tinybuild stops dependents before restarting their dependency.

The demo's backend uses port 8099. If that port is busy, change it in both backend.js and the config. Keep generated task files outside watched source folders, or add them to the ignore list.