Node.js simple static server example

With Express:

static.js:

'use strict';
var express = require('express'),
app = express();

/**
// Cache Control
var oneDay = 86400000;
app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/public', { maxAge: oneDay }));
**/

app.use(express.compress());
app.use('/data', express.static(__dirname + '/data'));

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

var port = process.env.PORT || 8881;
var server = app.listen(port);

console.log("Serving!");

package.js:

{
  "name": "static",
  "version": "0.0.1",
  "dependencies": {
    "express": "^3.18.4"
  },
  "engines": {
    "node": "0.10.x"
  }
}

./data directory with files in local dir, and an index.html

Note: will not serve files recursively, only 1 level

Note: Makes a killer microservice for providing static assets to some service, extremely fast, and much less configuration than nginx or Apache with a caching proxy, etc...

Simpler Example:

$ npm install connect serve-static

var connect = require('connect'),
    serveStatic = require('serve-static');
var server = connect();
server.use(serveStatic("./"));
server.listen(process.env.PORT || 8881);

This will start a static server from the root directory on provided port

Node.js simple static server example

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