When using the programmatic API of this package, I followed the example and documentation from the wiki.

On that page, it listed the option configFile as a parameter to LocalWebServer.listen()

So, I expect this piece of codes to work as intended (options are read from configFile):

const LocalWebServer = require('local-web-server')
const localWebServer = new LocalWebServer()
const server = localWebServer.listen({
  configFile: './path-to-file/lws.config.js'
})

server.close() 

But unfortunately, the config file is never read. I checked the source code in lws package and indeed, the config is only used at lib/command/serve.js which I believe is only invoked in the CLI application use case.