Simplex-Http-Server

A simple Node.js Http-Server with router

• MIME types for most common files
• Serves HTML, JS, CSS, plain text and images
• Serves index.html as a default directory index
• Responds with error codes for missing files
• Ability to set route aliases
• Ability to set custom routes

Getting started

git clone https://github.com/nvrenuff/simplex-http-server
npm start

Usage

const HttpServer = require("./server");

const app = new HttpServer();
const port = 4001;

app.get("/users", function (req, res) {
  res.statusCode = 200;
  res.end(`from custom handler ${req.url}`);
});

app.listen(port);

Static assets

Static assets are served from /public directory

• /public - HTML files
• /public/static
  • /public/static/css - CSS files
  • /public/static/images - Images
  • /public/static/js - Javascript files

Route Aliases

Route aliases can be set in /routes/aliases.js

  "/": "/index.html",
  "/about": "/about.html",
  "/contact": "/contact.html",
  "404": "/404.html",