Serving from Files
Being able to write and run JavaScript on your server is nice.
Most servers will want to vend out and process content living in
files, too. Your next job is to make your server read files
from a subfolder and send them in a response back to the browser.
This is similar to what browser-sync
was doing for you in earlier chapters.
Create a new folder named app inside of your chattrbox project folder. In it, create an index.html file with the following text:
Hello, File!
You do not need any actual HTML in this file – it only needs some content that can be read. Your project folder should look like Figure 15.11.
Figure 15.11 Chattrbox project layout
Reading a file with the fs module
In index.js ...
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