Node is usually an http server like any other. It returns whatever response you want. The contents of a file containing Hello world HTML text is a good example.
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 9:01 AM, Reza Razavipour <[email protected]>wrote: > I am not understanding the data flow from the client side JS and back end > node.js code. > > So I am developing a web app, my first one ever :) > > Here is how I am envisioning it, the client is browser based, one URL > only... > > I have a node script that is my web server, index.js, starts listening on > 8888. I do not want this script to return HTML text, does it not have to > return a HTML filename and not the content? > > I thought that UI representation and details are done in a file, HTML and > javascript. That being the case, the node should return the name of that > file. > > Am I not understanding this correctly? > > As far as the code running on the server, we should have a web server, I > am creating a very light weight one with node itself. The other piece is > business logic, I am doing that in various node scripts. No knowledge of > HTML file details cooked into node code. > > All of the example I see Hello world HTML text getting send back for the > first page. I want to send that index.html. > > How does one do that? or I am missing the spirit of node? > > > -- > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "nodejs" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
