Question

I am building one web application, nodejs is my webserver. I want to send response from nodejs for the images,html,css,js,other files.

I want to know which nodejs module is providing to serve my UI files without using fs module which is internally available in nodejs.

Constraint: If i use fs module or express which internally uses fs, if a new file is added it should be generated for the response.

Thanks

Answer 1

You can use Express/Connect static middleware:

var app = require('express').createServer();
app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/public'));

app.listen(3000);

But the best way is configuring nginx or similar frontend server to proxy dynamic requests to node.js and direct return static files.