我正在尝试从本书中运行Express静态中间件，但看不到该示例试图显示的内容

Question

I'm on a section in this book about Express where it mentions express.static to serve files, but each time I run it, I get the code catching when no file is found. I have made a folder called public and put in an HTML file, and had it both in the project folder and above it but nothing happens other than the message given after it runs the static method call.

The code is:

var express = require("express");
var path = require("path");
var http = require("http");

var app = express();

var publicPath = path.resolve(__dirname,"public");
app.use(express.static(publicPath));

app.use(function(request,response){
    response.writeHead(200,{"Content-Type":"text/plain"});
    response.end("Looks like you didn't find a static file");
});

http.createServer(app).listen(3000);

The book does not give much more explanation. I've never worked with servers. What is going on?

Answer 1

I ran your sample code and was able to get it to display HTML files created in a public directory in the project root.

Eg. public/page.html could be retrieved at localhost:3000/page.html

If you create an index.html file in your public directory it will be retrieved at localhost:3000 . The index does not need the full .html extension.