simple gulp recipe to sever any projects dist folder with express & node. Just add these to a project then move any project you'd like to server at the root and rename the folder 'frontend' and you're done

app.js

'use strict';

// simple express server
var express = require('express');
var app = express();
var router = express.Router();

app.use(express.static('public'));
app.get('/', function(req, res) {
// res.sendfile('./public/index.html');
});

app.listen(5000);

gulpfile.js

'use strict';

var gulp = require('gulp');
var browserSync = require('browser-sync');
var nodemon = require('gulp-nodemon');


gulp.task('default', ['browser-sync'], function () {
});

gulp.task('browser-sync', ['nodemon'], function() {
	browserSync.init(null, {
		proxy: "http://localhost:5000",
        files: ["public/**/*.*"],
        port: 7000,
	});
});
gulp.task('move', function(){
  gulp.src('frontend/dist/**/*', { base: 'frontend/dist/' })
  .pipe(gulp.dest('public'));
});
gulp.task('nodemon',['move'], function (cb) {

	var started = false;

	return nodemon({
		script: 'app.js'
	}).on('start', function () {
		if (!started) {
			cb();
			started = true;
		}
	});
});

packages.json

{
  "name": "dist-express-static-server",
  "version": "0.0.1",
  "private": true,
  "dependencies": {
    "body-parser": "*",
    "error-handler": "^0.1.4",
    "express": "*",
    "gulp-express": "^0.3.5",
    "html2jade": "^0.8.6",
    "jade": "~0.31.2",
    "method-override": "^1.0.0",
    "morgan": "^1.0.0"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "http": "0.0.0",
    "http-proxy-middleware": "^0.17.2"
  }
}