Basic Node server.js file example

This is a simple server.js file that could render web pages on a remote web host.

    
const http = require('http'),
      fs = require('fs'),
      path = require('path');

const mimeTypes = {
    ".html": "text/html",
    ".txt": "text/html",
    ".js": "text/javascript",
    ".css": "text/css",
    ".png": "image/png",
    ".jpg": "image/jpg",
    ".svg": "application/image/svg+xml",
    ".json": "application/json"
};

let handleRequest = (request, response) => {

    // path to your static files relative to this file
    const basePath = "./public";

    let filePath = basePath + request.url;

    // use index.html files when the paths are ending with '/'
    if( filePath.substr(-1) === "/" ) {
        filePath = filePath + '/index.html';
    }

    const extname = String(path.extname(filePath)).toLowerCase();

    const contentType = mimeTypes[extname] || 'application/octet-stream';

    if (extname === '.html') {
        // serve html files

        filePath = fs.readFileSync(filePath);

        response.writeHead(200, {"Content-Type": contentType});

        response.end(filePath, 'utf-8');

    } else {
        // read other files

        fs.readFile(filePath, function(error, content) {
            if (error) {
                if(error.code == 'ENOENT') {
                    fs.readFile('./404.html', function(error, content) {
                        response.writeHead(200, { 'Content-Type': contentType });
                        response.end(content, 'utf-8');
                    });
                }
                else {
                    response.writeHead(500);
                    response.end('Sorry, check with the site admin for error: '+error.code+' ..\n');
                    response.end();
                }
            }
            else {
                response.writeHead(200, { 'Content-Type': contentType });
                response.end(content, 'utf-8');
            }
        });
    }
};

let port = 80;

if (process.env.NODE_ENV === 'dev') {
    console.log('Dev Server');
    port = 8080;
} else {
    console.log('Prod Server');
}

http.createServer(handleRequest).listen(port);