Basic webserver with node.js and express for serving html file and assets

Question

I'm making some frontend experiments and I'd like to have a very basic webserver to quickly start a project and serve the files (one index.html file + some css/js/img files). So I'm trying to make something with node.js and express, I played with both already, but I don't want to use a render engine this time since I'll have only a single static file, with this code I get the html file but not the assets (error 404):

var express = require('express'),     app = express.createServer();  app.configure(function(){   app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/static')); });  app.get('/', function(req, res){   res.sendFile(__dirname + '/index.html'); });  app.listen(3000); 

Is there a simple way to do it (in one file if possible) or Express requires the use of a view and render engine ?

Answer 1

I came across this because I have a similar situation. I don't need or like templates. Anything you put in the public/ directory under express gets served as static content (Just like Apache). So I placed my index.html there and used sendfile to handle requests with no file (eg: GET http://mysite/):

app.get('/', function(req,res) {   res.sendfile('public/index.html'); });