This is tutorial teach you how to reading files with Node.js.in the example we are not create the express server instead of that we created the http model inside the http model has createServer function.easy way to reading the in node js implementing the method fs.readFile
server.js
const http = require("http"); const fs = require("fs"); http.createServer((req,res)=> { fs.readFile("./index.html", (err,data)=>{ if(err) { res.end("Page not found") } else { res.end(data) } }) }).listen(4000,()=>{ console.log("Server Started"); })
File made as index.html
index.html
<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> <title>Document</title> </head> <body> <h1>Message 1</h1> </body> </html>
I have attached the video link below. which will do this tutorials step by step.