How to open a separate html file in response.write(``);?

Question

JavaScript

There is a code:

var http = require("http");
var server = http.createServer(function(request, response) {
response.writeHead(200, {"Content-Type": "text/html"});
response.write("<h1>Привет!</h1><p>Вы запросили `" +
request.url + "`</p>");
response.end();
});
server.listen(8000);

It is impossible to make it so that instead of there is a path to the index.html file, which is located in the same directory with the script? Tried to do with fs did not work. response.write("");

Answer 1

Why didn't you succeed with fs? Should work

var fs = require('fs'),
    path = require('path'),    
    filePath = path.join(__dirname, 'start.html');

fs.readFile(filePath, { encoding: 'utf-8' }, function(err,data){
    if (!err) {
        console.log('received data: ' + data);
        response.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/html'});
        response.write(data);
        response.end();
    } else {
        console.log(err);
    }
});