Node Server responding with HTML (sync)

server-html.js

var http = require('http');
var fs = require('fs');

http.createServer(function(req, res) {
    // Specify html content type
    res.writeHead(200, { 'Content-Type': 'text/html' });

    // Read contents of index.htm file synchronously,
    // Saved as string in var html
    var html = fs.readFileSync(__dirname + '/index.htm');

    // Send contents of index.htm file as body of response
    res.end(html);
}).listen(1337, '127.0.0.1');