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JavaScript

Rich Zimmerman
Rich Zimmerman
24,063 Points
Posted by Rich Zimmerman
Rich Zimmerman
24,063 Points

WHY use http.createServer() Node.Js

So when we first learned to pull and parse data from a JSON object to the console, we didn't create a web server. But when doing the next example where you do the same thing, just display results into an html page, we create a web server with http.createServer.. I'm just curious as to why, what exact purpose it serves and why we didn't have to create one in the first example.

Thanks, Rich

1 Answer

Chris Shaw
Chris Shaw
26,676 Points
Chris Shaw
Chris Shaw
26,676 Points

Hi Richard,

NodeJS out of the box is simply a console application which means we can't serve HTML files for example as the output would appear as plain text, the reason we need to use http.createServer() is because it creates an HTTP server that binds to the given port that your browser can connect to and retrieve static HTML pages from along with JSON requests for example from a micro API.

Hope that helps.

Rich Zimmerman
Rich Zimmerman
24,063 Points
Rich Zimmerman
Rich Zimmerman
24,063 Points

That helps a lot. Thank you.