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

Basically copying the accepted answer, but avoiding creating a js file.

$ node
> var connect = require('connect'); connect().use(static('.')).listen(8000);

Found it very convinient.

Update

As of latest version of Express, serve-static has become a separate middleware. Use this to serve:

require('http').createServer(require('serve-static')('.')).listen(3000)

Install serve-static first.