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JavaScript

Posted by Bernd Plontsch
Bernd Plontsch
1,617 Points

Serve image assets and page HTML in node.js

I followed the course "Build a Simple Dynamic Site with Node.js" to create a tiny http server and routes for serving dynamic HTML pages. Great.

I'd like to build on that and serve some images from a subfolder that are displayed within the served pages.

My understanding is that I need to extend the

http.createServer(function (request, response) { router.home(request, response); }).listen(3000);

ā€¦ to include a way to serve images with their own content types (image/png). My problem with this so far (by adding a condition depending on the request path) was that I was either serving an image or a page without any images but not both at the same time.

Any hints what the best way to serve images assets for a page template? (ideally without using any npm packages).