simplest way to have Express serve a default page?

Question

I\'m using this to have Node.js/Express setup as a rudimentary web server - it just serves a set of static pages without any other processing. I\'d like it to always serve /

Answer 1

You could do something like this. Assuming its an html file that is relative to the .js file:

app.get('/', function(req, res){
    res.sendfile('default.html', { root: __dirname + "/relative_path_of_file" } );
});