That indeed was a dilemma. Although it focusses on doing one thing well, there were also a few core things that are useful to support a websocket based app - na

That indeed was a dilemma. Although it focusses on doing one thing well, there were also a few core things that are useful to support a websocket based app - namely a place to serve the actual web content from (static) and the ability to use websocketd using vanilla http instead of websockets (cgi).