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

You could use a solution like this in node.js (link no longer works), as I've blogged about before.

The summarise, install connect with npm install connect.

Then paste this code into a file called server.js in the same folder as your HTML/CSS/JS files.

var util = require('util'),
    connect = require('connect'),
    port = 1337;

connect.createServer(connect.static(__dirname)).listen(port);
util.puts('Listening on ' + port + '...');
util.puts('Press Ctrl + C to stop.');

Now navigate to that folder in your terminal and run node server.js, this will give you a temporary web server at http://localhost:1337