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 experience as when you read normal web pages).
Using the code below, I can read the content of index.html. How do I serve index.html as a regular web page?
var http = require('http');
var fs = require('fs');
var index = fs.readFileSync('index.html');
http.createServer(function (req, res) {
res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});
res.end(index);
}).listen(9615);
One suggestion below is complicated and requires me to write a get line for each resource (CSS, JavaScript, images) file I want to use.
How can I serve a single HTML page with some images, CSS and JavaScript?
You can use Connect and ServeStatic with Node.js for this:
Install connect and serve-static with NPM
$ npm install connect serve-static
Create server.js file with this content:
var connect = require('connect');
var serveStatic = require('serve-static');
connect().use(serveStatic(__dirname)).listen(8080, function(){
console.log('Server running on 8080...');
});
Run with Node.js
$ node server.js
You can now go to http://localhost:8080/yourfile.html