Since nginx version 1.7.9 it supports autoindex_format json; directive.
When the directive is on, nginx produces very lightweight autoindex in JSON format.
This project is a JS frontend (written with AngularJS and Twitter Bootstrap) which
builds on this feature to provide modern AJAX autoindex facility.
Minimal nginx config example is in nginx.conf file included in the repository.
Once nginx is configured and running, put contents of the repository under some
document root, so nginx can serve it, and open index.html in browser via nginx.
To configure, rename config-example.json to config.json and set base_index_url
option to a path configured in nginx with autoindex_format json;.