Node Cookbook

Setting up a router

In order to deliver web content we need to make a URI available. This recipe walks us through the creation of an HTTP server that exposes routes to the user.

Getting ready

First, let's create our server file. If our main purpose is to expose server functionality, it's general practice to call the file server.js, which we could put in a new folder. It's also a good idea to install and use hotnode:

sudo npm -g install hotnode
hotnode server.js

Hotnode will conveniently auto-restart the server when we save changes.

How to do it...

In order to create the server we need the http module, so let's load it and use the http.createServer method:

 var http = require('http'); http.createServer(function (request, response) { response.writeHead(200, ...