This project is a simple HTTP server built using Node.js. The server serves an HTML homepage, handles dynamic URLs for user-specific pages, provides an API endpoint, and returns appropriate responses for bad requests.
- Serves a static HTML homepage.
- Handles dynamic URLs to serve personalized user pages.
- Provides an API endpoint to serve JSON data.
- Returns 404 for unknown routes.
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Clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/theNewtonCode/Server-using-Node.js.git cd simple-http-server -
Install the required dependencies:
npm install
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Create the necessary directories and files if they do not exist:
mkdir -p Frontend/static Backend touch Backend/users.txt Frontend/static/index.html Frontend/static/api_data/text.txt
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Populate
Backend/users.txtwith usernames (one per line):user1 user2
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Add content to
Frontend/static/index.html:<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> <title>Homepage</title> </head> <body> <h1>Welcome to the Homepage</h1> </body> </html>
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Add some text content to
Frontend/static/api_data/text.txt.
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Start the server:
node server.js
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Open your browser and navigate to
http://127.0.0.1:3000. -
To access a user-specific page, navigate to
http://127.0.0.1:3000/users/username, whereusernameis a name listed inBackend/users.txt. -
To access the API endpoint, navigate to
http://127.0.0.1:3000/api/data.
Backend/users.txt: File containing usernames.
Frontend/static/index.html: HTML file for the homepage.api_data/text.txt: File containing text data for the API endpoint.
server.js: Main server file.
This project is licensed under the MIT License.