Creating a simple http server listening at port 3000
and is used to serve string.
//serve-string.js
var http = require('http');
var host = '127.0.0.1'
var port = 3000
var server = http.createServer((request, response) => {
response.writeHead(200, {"Content-Type": "text/plain"});
response.write("Hello World!");
response.end();
});
server.listen(port,host, (error) => {
if (error) {
return console.log('Error occured : ', error );
}
console.log('server is listening on ' + host + ':'+ port);
});
>node serve-string.js
server is listening on 127.0.0.1:3000