A simple node http server that logs all requests

simple-node-server.js

'use strict'

const http = require('http')
const port = 3000

http
.createServer((request, response) => {
  // Set CORS headers
  response.setHeader('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', '*');
  response.setHeader('Access-Control-Request-Method', '*');
  response.setHeader('Access-Control-Allow-Methods', 'OPTIONS, GET');
  response.setHeader('Access-Control-Allow-Headers', '*');
  if (request.method === 'OPTIONS') {
    response.writeHead(200);
    response.end();
    return;
  }
  
  // simple pipe the request to the response
  request.pipe(response)

  // show time the request took in a nice way
  let start_at = process.hrtime()
  response.on('finish', () => {
    let diff = process.hrtime(start_at)
    let time = diff[0] * 1e3 + diff[1] * 1e-6
    console.log('\x1b[92m', request.method,'\x1b[0m', request.url, '\x1b[96m', time.toFixed(3), 'ms', '\x1b[0m')
  })
})
.listen(port, () => {
  console.log(`Server listening on: http://localhost:${port}`)
})