Node.js Simple Server Request End Event Issue

Question

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);

Note: That tutorial was written for Express 2.x, in which `app` was an instance of `http.Server`. With Express 3.x, `app` is instead a `function` so you can't simply `listen()` to it. Have a look through the [2.x to 3.x migration guide](https://github.com/visionmedia/express/wiki/Migrating-from-2.x-to-3.x), especially [Socket.IO compatibility](https://github.com/visionmedia/express/wiki/Migrating-from-2.x-to-3.x#socketio-compatibility). — Jonathan Lonowski, Apr 02 '13 at 03:34

micnic · Answer 1 · 2013-04-10T12:54:52.253

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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);

edited Apr 10 '13 at 12:54

answered Apr 02 '13 at 06:31

micnic

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This did the trick for me, my system upgraded to the latest node.js version and suddenly my node.js apps were borked. :/ – Nick Jennings Apr 10 '13 at 11:02
@NickJennings, also it is necessary to listen for `readable` event to read data, added to the answer – micnic Apr 10 '13 at 12:52

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 02 '13 at 05:36

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);

Node.js Simple Server Request End Event Issue

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