Server crashes in the minimal example

[chrisspen]

All your steps for the minimal example work perfectly for me except:

./node_modules/.bin/http-server

For me, it initially launches correctly, but then crashes with the error:

[Thu Apr 07 2022 22:28:06 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)]  "GET /" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/99.0.4844.83 Safari/537.36"
_http_outgoing.js:470
    throw new ERR_HTTP_HEADERS_SENT('set');
    ^

Error [ERR_HTTP_HEADERS_SENT]: Cannot set headers after they are sent to the client
    at ServerResponse.setHeader (_http_outgoing.js:470:11)
    at module.exports.ResponseStream.(anonymous function) [as setHeader] (/home/chris/git/asr/sqljs/node_modules/union/lib/response-stream.js:100:34)
    at Object.exports.(anonymous function) (/home/chris/git/asr/sqljs/node_modules/http-server/lib/core/status-handlers.js:57:7)
    at Readable.stream.on (/home/chris/git/asr/sqljs/node_modules/http-server/lib/core/index.js:339:22)
    at Readable.emit (events.js:198:13)
    at emitErrorNT (internal/streams/destroy.js:91:8)
    at emitErrorAndCloseNT (internal/streams/destroy.js:59:3)
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:63:19)

I'm unfamiliar with reading Node tracebacks. It looks like it's receiving a request, but is having trouble writing the response. What's causing this?

[phiresky]

That might be a bug upstream with the https://www.npmjs.com/package/http-server library. I don't know why since it looks like this library was not updated since I used it. You can try using any other http server that supports range requests for now

[chrisspen]

Yeah, I think you're right. Looks like it was reported here that version 14 no longer works at all, and a workaround is to revert to version 13.

[chrisspen]

Alternatively, you can upgrade your node version to fix this. I was using Node 10, which the http-server package no longer supports.