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

I came across this because I have a similar situation. I don't need or like templates. Anything you put in the public/ directory under express gets served as static content (Just like Apache). So I placed my index.html there and used sendfile to handle requests with no file (eg: GET http://mysite/):

app.get('/', function(req,res) {
  res.sendfile('public/index.html');
});