Node.js Simple Server Request End Event Issue

Question

Node.js Simple Server Request End Event Issue

I'm new to node.js. Trying to get a console to print when the request ends. I try to go to localhost:8080 and also localhost:8080/ but nothing prints in the terminal. Any idea why? Doing this because when I run this example because when I try to run the demo at http://tutorialzine.com/2012/08/nodejs-drawing-game/ the terminal says socket started but it does not render the index.html page. So I can't figure out why this code to serve static files for other is not working for me.

var static = require('node-static');

//
// Create a node-static server instance to serve the './public' folder
//
// var file = new(static.Server)('./');

require('http').createServer(function (request, response) {
    request.addListener('end', function () {
        console.log("ended");
    });
}).listen(8080);

node.js
node-static

Answer 1

It seems that your are using Node.js 0.10.x and in the new version you have to resume the readable streams to make them emit events:

require('http').createServer(function (request, response) {
    var body = '';
    request.setEncoding('utf8');
    request.on('readable', function () {
        body+= this.read();
    }
    request.on('end', function () {
        console.log('ended');
        console.log('Body: ' + body);
    });
    request.resume();
}).listen(8080);

Answer 2

You should be call node-static serve inside the request handler so that you can get index.html

var static = require('node-static');
var fileServer = new static.Server('./');

require('http').createServer(function (request, response) {
    fileServer.serve(request, response);    //add this line 
    request.addListener('end', function () {
        console.log("ended");
    });
}).listen(8080);