January 2018
Beginner
658 pages
13h 10m
English
Content preview from Learning Node.js Development
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The static server
In this section, we'll learn how to set up a static directory. So if we have a website with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and images, we can serve that up without needing to provide a custom route for every single file, which would be a real burden. Now setting this up is really simple. But before we make any updates to server.js, we'd create some static assets inside of our project that we can actually serve up.