How to listen to GET requests using only http with node? No express

Question

I'm wondering how to listen to http get requests with only "require http" instead of express.

This is what I have now:

let http = require('http');
let server = http.createServer(function (req, res) {
    res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});
    res.end('Hello, World!\n');
});
server.listen(8443);
console.log('Server running on port 8443');

I want to listen to get requests, and console.log the url. and if there is any other request i want to print ("bad request").

Answer 1

You need to check what method was used using http: message.method and if it is not GET then send another response.

'use strict'
let http = require('http');
let server = http.createServer(function (req, res) {
  if( req.method === 'GET' ) {
    res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});
    res.end('Hello, World!\n');
  } else {
    res.writeHead(405, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});
    res.end('Method Not Allowed\n');
  }
});
server.listen(8443);
console.log('Server running on port 8443');