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John
John

Reputation: 833

Node.js return a JS file locally

Inside my html file, I am using this:

<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.2/jquery.min.js"></script>

However, I was not allowed to connect to internet during the running. How can I use node js to return this file locally. I already download this file "jquery.min.js" in my local machine.

I am trying to use this code, but it does not work.

function callback(data) { 
    res.writeHead(200, {"Content-Type": "text/html"});
    var str = data+"";
    res.write(str);     
    res.end();
}
HTMLtemplate.load("jquery.min.js", callback);

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3125

Answers (1)

Robert Moskal
Robert Moskal

Reputation: 22553

You can't easily serve up both the web page and jquery in a simple node server that looks like this: 

var http = require('http');


var server = http.createServer(function (request, response) {
response.writeHead(200, {"Content-Type": "text/plain"});
response.end("Hello World\n");
});
server.listen(8000);

I think you are going to need some router or framework to serve up multiple http endpoints and static assets. Many people use express:

http://expressjs.com/

Or even something as simple as this:

https://github.com/creationix/node-router

I suppose you could serve up a web page with jquery embedded in it using a naked node server by doing something like this (this is only psuedo-code):

var http = require('http');
var fs = require('fs');
var html = "<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head lang="en">
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title></title>
 <script>REPLACEME</script>
</head>
<body>

</body>
</html>";

var server = http.createServer(function (request, response) {
    fs.readFile('jquery.js', 'utf8', function (err,data) {
            response.writeHead(200, {"Content-Type": "text/html"});
            response.end(html.replace('REPLACEME', data));

    });

});
server.listen(8000);

But that seems very wrong except, perhaps, as an exercise that demonstrates what a web framework does. Unless you are doing this for school, just install one of the above frameworks (or some other) and it will be easy.

Upvotes: 1

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