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# assignment_build_a_nodejs_server
Building your first Node.js server and exploring the request and response objects
+
+by Dennis C
diff --git a/app1-setup.js b/app1-setup.js
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+//
+// 1) Setting up the HTTP server
+//
+
+'use strict';
+
+const http = require('http');
+const fs = require('fs');
+
+const hostname = 'localhost';
+const port = 3001;
+
+const server = http.createServer(function(req,res) {
+ res.statusCode = 200;
+ res.setHeader('Content-Type', 'text/html');
+ res.end('Hello World!\n');
+});
+
+server.listen(port, hostname, function () {
+ console.log(`Listening on http://${hostname}:${port}/`)
+});
diff --git a/app2-html.js b/app2-html.js
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+//
+// 2) Outputting HTML
+//
+
+'use strict';
+
+const http = require('http');
+const fs = require('fs');
+
+const hostname = 'localhost';
+const port = 3001;
+
+const server = http.createServer(function(req,res) {
+ fs.readFile(__dirname + '/public/index.html', 'utf8', function(err,data) {
+ if (err) {
+ res.writeHead(404);
+ res.end("File not found");
+ } else {
+ res.writeHead(200,
+ {'Content-Type': 'text/html'});
+ res.end(data);
+ };
+ });
+});
+
+server.listen(port, hostname, function () {
+ console.log(`Listening on http://${hostname}:${port}/`)
+});
diff --git a/app3-json.js b/app3-json.js
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+//
+// 3) Displaying request and response data with JSON
+//
+
+'use strict';
+
+const http = require('http');
+const fs = require('fs');
+
+const hostname = 'localhost';
+const port = 3001;
+
+const server = http.createServer(function(req,res) {
+ var reqSnip = {
+ url: req.url,
+ method: req.method,
+ httpVersion: req.httpVersion,
+ headers: req.headers
+ };
+
+ var resSnip = {
+ statusMessage: res.statusMessage,
+ statusCode: res.statusCode,
+ header: res._header
+ };
+
+ /*
+ //this won't work because objects are circular structure, ie, too big
+ //thus need to "downsize" it
+ var myJsonReqSnip = JSON.stringify(req, null, 2);
+ var myJsonResSnip = JSON.stringify(res, null, 2);
+ */
+
+ /*
+ //looks minified
+ var myJsonReqSnip = JSON.stringify(reqSnip);
+ var myJsonResSnip = JSON.stringify(resSnip);
+ */
+
+ //thus pretty print it
+ var myJsonReqSnip = JSON.stringify(reqSnip, null, 2);
+ var myJsonResSnip = JSON.stringify(resSnip, null, 2);
+
+/*
+ res.writeHead(200,
+ //using mime-type = application/json seems to produce errors
+ {'Content-Type': 'application/json'});
+ res.end(myJsonReqSnip + '\n\n' + myJsonResSnip);
+*/
+
+ fs.readFile(__dirname + '/public/index.html', 'utf8', function(err,data) {
+ if (err) {
+ res.writeHead(404);
+ res.end("File not found");
+ } else {
+ res.writeHead(200,
+ {'Content-Type': 'text/html'});
+ data = data.replace('{ req }', myJsonReqSnip).replace('{ res }', myJsonResSnip);
+ res.end(data);
+ };
+ });
+});
+
+server.listen(port, hostname, function () {
+ console.log(`Listening on http://${hostname}:${port}/`)
+});
diff --git a/public/index.html b/public/index.html
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+
+
+
+
+
+
+ This page is a response from the server!
+
+ Request:
+ { req }
+
+ Response:
+ { res }
+
+
+
+
+
+