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

You can use Connect and ServeStatic with Node.js for this:

1. Install connect and serve-static with NPM

   $ npm install connect serve-static
   

2. Create server.js file with this content:

   var connect = require('connect');
   var serveStatic = require('serve-static');
   
   connect()
       .use(serveStatic(__dirname))
       .listen(8080, () => console.log('Server running on 8080...'));
   

3. Run with Node.js

   $ node server.js
   

You can now go to http://localhost:8080/yourfile.html