Webserver in nasm (macho64 and linux x86_64 assembly) for fun

Run

You need nasm in order to build the application (brew install nasm)
To build and run the application use make run-osx or make run-linux You need to have installed command-line tools xcode-select --install as OS X Linker requres libSystem.dylib

The server will start listening on localhost:8080 and there will be one route / which will answer with hello message

Docker

docker build . -t server
docker run -p8080:8080 server

Now you can curl http://localhost:8080 and get hello world! (or open it in browser)

The docker image is only 9KB

docker inspect server | jq .[0].Size

Description

The code is creating a socket using syscalls (socket, bind, listen, accept) and read, write syscalls to read and answer requests