Using node.js as a simple web server

Question

I want to run a very simple HTTP server. Every GET request to example.com should get index.html served to it but as a regular HTML page (i.e., same

Answer 1

Step1 (inside command prompt [I hope you cd TO YOUR FOLDER]) : npm install express

Step 2: Create a file server.js

var fs = require("fs");
var host = "127.0.0.1";
var port = 1337;
var express = require("express");

var app = express();
app.use(express.static(__dirname + "/public")); //use static files in ROOT/public folder

app.get("/", function(request, response){ //root dir
    response.send("Hello!!");
});

app.listen(port, host);

Please note, you should add WATCHFILE (or use nodemon) too. Above code is only for a simple connection server.

STEP 3: node server.js or nodemon server.js

There is now more easy method if you just want host simple HTTP server. npm install -g http-server

and open our directory and type http-server

https://www.npmjs.org/package/http-server