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Being new to Node.js, I'd like to know of a better way of implementing this:

server = http.createServer( function(req, res) {
if (req.url === '/') {
        fs.readFile('index.html', function(err, page) {
            res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/html'});
            res.write(page);
            res.end();
        });
}   
 else if (req.url == '/new.html') { 
        fs.readFile('new.html', function(err, page) {
                res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/html'});
                res.write(page);
                res.end();
        });
}
});
server.listen(8080);

Using something like this:

var Url = require('url')
...

// In request handler
var uri = Url.parse(req.url);
switch (uri.pathname) {
  case "/":
    ..
  case "/new.html":
    ..
}
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Use a router like express. – Raynos Dec 31 '11 at 17:33
Other than using a framework... – Simpleton Dec 31 '11 at 23:30
If you want static routing you can write a naive static router – Raynos Jan 1 '12 at 10:48

1 Answer

up vote 2 down vote accepted

Whether you wanna implement a static server? If so, you can just use connect and its built-in static middlewave. With it, you just need to write the following code to implement a static server:

var connect = require("connect");

connect(
    connect.static(__dirname)
).listen(3000);

That's it.

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