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

I looked briefly for the best practices for serving a public folder and specifying the default page to serve. After reviewing the 'Express middleware' documentation, my solution looks like the following,

var express = require('express');
var app = express();

var options = {
  index: "coming-soon.html"
};

app.use('/', express.static('app', options));

var server = app.listen(8081, function () {
  var host = server.address().address;
  var port = server.address().port;

  console.log('my app is listening at http://%s:%s', host, port);
});