如何使用节点http库提供角度文件？

Question

I am converting my app from Express to use Node's simple http library due to deployment complications with using Express. In Express to serve my client side angular files I have the following line:

app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/client/app/'));

How can I achieve the same thing using node's http module?

Please, no comments/questions on why I am not using Express or suggestions on why I should use Express. The reason for not using Express is outside the scope of this post. I just really need to be able to serve my frontend using Node's http library. Thanks!

Answer 1

This doesn't use express, but a standalone static-server module:

var static = require('node-static');

//
// Create a node-static server instance to serve the './public' folder
//
var file = new static.Server('./public');

require('http').createServer(function (request, response) {
    request.addListener('end', function () {
        //
        // Serve files!
        //
        file.serve(request, response);
    }).resume();
}).listen(8080);

node-static

This article has some further details as well, but recommends something like node-static, for security purposes: How to serve static files