Basic webserver with NodeJS and Express

html_node_server.js

#!/usr/bin/env node
// This script runs a simple server for HTML, CSS, JS files.

const publicFolder = 'www';   // Change this folder to point to your web files
const port = 8080;            // Default port for web server but you can change it

// (Make sure you've installed the required dependencies)
const express = require('express');
const path = require('path');
const app = express();

app.get(/.*/, function (req, res) {
	let isRoot = path.basename(req.path) == '';
	let output = __dirname + publicFolder +'/' + req.path + (isRoot ? '/index.html' : '');
	res.sendFile(path.join(output));
});

app.listen(port, (err) => {
	if (err) {
		return console.log(err)
	}
	console.log(`server listening on ${port}`)
})