Difference between http-server and http

[iamdriz]

What's the difference between this module and the http module that is part of Node core?

[indexzero]

The core Node.js http module (see: API reference) is just that: a module to interact with HTTP in Javascript.

In contrast, http-server (see: API reference) is not meant to be used as a module, but as a stand-alone static file available via a CLI tool of the same name: http-server. In this way it is more comparable to other tools on the Big list of http static server one-liners.

If you're looking for a module that can serve static files check out ecstatic (which is used by http-server), node-static, or st.