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Created January 28, 2014 22:06
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Simple node.js static server
var http = require("http"),
url = require("url"),
path = require("path"),
fs = require("fs"),
mimer = require('mimer'), // npm install mimer
spawn = require('child_process').spawn,
port = process.argv[2] || 9000;
http.createServer(function(request, response) {
var uri = url.parse(request.url).pathname
, filename = path.join(process.cwd(), uri);
fs.exists(filename, function(exists) {
if(!exists) {
response.writeHead(404, {"Content-Type": "text/plain"});
response.write("404 Not Found\n");
response.end();
return;
}
if (fs.statSync(filename).isDirectory()) filename += '/index.html';
fs.readFile(filename, "binary", function(err, file) {
if(err) {
response.writeHead(500, {"Content-Type": "text/plain"});
response.write(err + "\n");
response.end();
return;
}
response.writeHead(200, {"Content-Type": mimer(filename)});
response.write(file, "binary");
response.end();
});
});
}).listen(parseInt(port, 10));
spawn('open', ['http://localhost:' + port + '/index.html']);
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