Please see the lws API docs. The local-web-server programmatic API is identical to lws with two differences:

1. local-web-serverhas a default middleware stack while lws does not.
2. local-web-serveradds itself to the plugin module search path, meaning when you type--stack lws-static it will first search the current working directory then the local-web-server installation for thelws-static module.

Trival example:

importLocalWebServerfrom'local-web-server'constws=awaitLocalWebServer.create({port:9000,directory:'public'})/* make requests */// curl http://localhost:9000/* shut down */ws.server.close()