I am writing an application in NodeJS.
I have two files in the same directory but whenever I call either:
To serve static files with Express, you should use express.static
or otherwise you will have to define a new route for every html file that you have, or reinvent the functionality provided by express.static
. (If you don't want to use Express for that then see this answer.)
You can do something like this:
app.js
var path = require('path');
var express = require('express');
var app = express();
var htmlPath = path.join(__dirname, 'html');
app.use(express.static(htmlPath));
var server = app.listen(3000, function () {
var host = 'localhost';
var port = server.address().port;
console.log('listening on http://'+host+':'+port+'/');
});
Put your files in the html
subdirectory. For example:
html/index.html
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>index.html</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>index.html</h1>
<p>Redirection in 2s...</p>
<script>
setTimeout(function () {
window.location.href = "./page.html";
}, 2000);
</script>
</body>
</html>
html/page.html
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>page.html</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>page.html</h1>
<p>Redirection in 2s...</p>
<script>
setTimeout(function () {
window.location.href = "./index.html";
}, 2000);
</script>
</body>
</html>
And the files will redirect every 2 seconds.
You can download this example from GitHub:
More examples to do the same with and without Express:
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