Running a local site via node server?

Question

Node.js

I immediately apologize for such ridiculous questions, but I didn’t have to work with servers before and please explain how to run my local site through the node server. I have a directory with index.html and server.js files with code

var http = require("http");

http.createServer(function(request, response) {
  response.writeHead(200, {"Content-Type": "text/plain"});
  response.write("Hello World 11");
  response.end();
}).listen(8888);

I started the server in this directory and everything works, but now how do I open my index.html file in this server?

Answer 1

how to open my file in this server now

This is called serve static content. By default, there is no such functionality, but it is very simple to do it: read the file on the appropriate request and send it via response.write. To make it even easier and with goodies, there is a serve-static package , everything is described in the examples there.
Well, or not to write code at all, you can do this: https://www.npmjs.com/package/static-server