How to share local files between two computers using node.js?

Question

I'd like to let another user download a file from my local machine (mac), preferably using http protocol. I recently learned about streams in node.js and it seems like an interesting project to set up my server locally and stream some big file to another computer (more than 1 GB). I know how to set up a server but because the files are hosted locally how can I pull this off using node? What would be the prerequisites and steps for such a project?

Answer 1

If you're hosting files on one machine and making them available using Node, I would recommend using express , as it is every easy to use.

Using express, hosting files would look something like this:

 const express = require('express'); const app = express(); app.use('/', express.static('./files')); // replace ./files with the path to the directory holding the file/files you want to make available app.listen(80); // :80 is default http port

However if you're looking to use actual streams with Node's native http module, give this a look .