Sometimes, we want to load basic HTML in Node.js and JavaScript.
In this article, we’ll look at how to load basic HTML in Node.js and JavaScript.
How to load basic HTML in Node.js and JavaScript?
To load basic HTML in Node.js and JavaScript, we use the http module.
For instance, we write
const http = require("http");
const fs = require("fs");
fs.readFile("./index.html", (err, html) => {
if (err) {
throw err;
}
http
.createServer((request, response) => {
response.writeHeader(200, { "Content-Type": "text/html" });
response.write(html);
response.end();
})
.listen(8000);
});
to call readFile to read index.html into a string.
Then we get the string from the html parameter in the callback.
Next, we call http.createServer with a callback to create a HTTP server.
The callback serves the response by calling response.write with html to serve the html string as the response body.
Conclusion
To load basic HTML in Node.js and JavaScript, we use the http module.
