NodeJS: How to get the server's port?

Question

You often see example hello world code for Node that creates an Http Server, starts listening on a port, then followed by something along the lines of:

conso         


        

Answer 1

With latest node.js (v0.3.8-pre): I checked the documentation, inspected the server instance returned by http.createServer(), and read the source code of server.listen()...

Sadly, the port is only stored temporarily as a local variable and ends up as an argument in a call to process.binding('net').bind() which is a native method. I did not look further.

It seems that there is no better way than keeping a reference to the port value that you provided to server.listen().