Node js as http server and host angularJS SPA

Question

I have an application written on angularJS and built by grunt. Is there a way I can create a http server from node js and host it there. Please share any code snippet or document which would help. Thanks

Answer 1

1. (simplest) if you don't have any server side logic, you can simply serve client side AngularJS/HTML/css via http-server module from npm. https://www.npmjs.com/package/http-server Just install it via $>npm install -g http-server and go to your client folder, type http-server and hit enter.

2. If you have server side code written, (ExpressJS or restify web api) then use $>nodemon server.js

3. If you are looking at options for production applications, consider forever/pm2 https://www.npmjs.com/package/pm2 https://www.npmjs.com/package/forever

Answer 2

Use the following code in your app.js file.

var express = require('express');

var path = require('path');
var bodyParser = require('body-parser');
var app = express();

app.use(bodyParser.json());
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({extended: false}));
app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, 'public')));

/* GET home page. */
app.get('/', function(req, res, next) {
  //Path to your main file
  res.status(200).sendFile(path.join(__dirname+'../public/index.html')); 
});

module.exports = app;

Run the app.js file using node app.js