Basic webserver with node.js and express for serving html file and assets

Question

I\'m making some frontend experiments and I\'d like to have a very basic webserver to quickly start a project and serve the files (one index.html file + some css/js/img files).

Answer 1

Following code worked for me.

var express = require('express'),
  app = express(),
  http = require('http'),
  httpServer = http.Server(app);

app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/folder_containing_assets_OR_scripts'));

app.get('/', function(req, res) {
  res.sendfile(__dirname + '/index.html');
});
app.listen(3000);

this loads page with assets