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

Crazy amount of complicated answers here. If you don't intend to process nodeJS files/database but just want to serve static html/css/js/images as your question suggest then simply install the pushstate-server module or similar;

Here's a "one liner" that will create and launch a mini site. Simply paste that entire block in your terminal in the appropriate directory.

mkdir mysite; \
cd mysite; \
npm install pushstate-server --save; \
mkdir app; \
touch app/index.html; \
echo '
Hello World
' > app/index.html; \
touch server.js; \
echo "var server = require('pushstate-server');server.start({ port: 3000, directory: './app' });" > server.js; \
node server.js

Open browser and go to http://localhost:3000. Done.

The server will use the app dir as the root to serve files from. To add additional assets just place them inside that directory.