I want it to return helloworld.html, the filename itself.

Can it do that?



On Thursday, September 12, 2013 9:34:15 AM UTC-7, Mark Hahn wrote:
>
> 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]<javascript:>
> > 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?
>>
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