dart-isoserver is a demonstration web server library that dynamically loads code from the filesystem to handle HTTP requests.

This demo serves a few purposes: 1. Show how to dynamically load Dart scripts into an isolate 1. Experiment with implementing an API proxy that communicates across Isolate ports. This will probably be a very common technique in Dart eventually. 1. Play with one way to build a 'hot-swapping' server. Changes to the dynamically loaded scripts are visible on browser refreshes.

The code is far from complete or production-ready, and very likely contains security holes, so please don't use this for anything serious. Besides, loading scripts from the file-system isn't that interesting aside from the hot-swapping-like behavior - running generated code or code loaded from a database will probably be more useful.

To try, run demo.dart and then point your web browser to either:

http://localhost:8080/test

or

http://localhost:8080/echo

You can add your own Dart script and serve requests by creating a new IsoletServer and using it much like a HttpServer, except you don't call listen(): ```

import('dart:io');

import('isolet.dart');

void main() { new IsoletServer().defaultRequestHandler = (req, res) { res.headers.set(HttpHeaders.CONTENT_TYPE, "text/html"); res.outputStream.writeString("Hello!"); res.outputStream.close(); }; } To use the library to serve scripts, create a `IsoServerHandler` and add it's `requestHandler` method to your `HttpServer`:

import("dart:io");

import("isoserver.dart");

void main() { HttpServer server = new HttpServer(); Path root = new Path(new Directory.current().path); IsoServerHandler handler = new IsoServerHandler(root); server.defaultRequestHandler = handler.handleRequest; server.listen("127.0.0.1", 8080); } ```