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It would be really handy if this could be mounted within an existing application as either a middleware or a "sub-application".

I've got a component I develop internally for hitting our custom API. For browsers w/o CORS capability, I have a little proxy that I run so I can still run those browser unit tests. In a nutshell, something like this could probably be accomplished:

var express = require("express"),
    cs = require("component-serve"),
    app = module.exports = express();

app.use("/build", cs({
    root: process.cwd(),
    plugins: [ /* plugin list here */ ]
}));

I'll spend some time working on adding this capability myself, and submitting as a PR. Of course the CLI interface would remain first-class, I wouldn't try to change that.

i'd be cool if there was an option to install/re-install deps on each request

component-install could be used

If I point my browser to a path that is a directory but has no index.html in it I don't get the directory listing I normally would with expresses static file server. see visionmedia/serve for what I mean by a directory listing. I think the problem could be the rebuild path is interfering with the static file server either that or just config options need to be set on the static serving middleware.