Why server created using http module of node is not working for me?

Question

I am trying to create server using 'http' module of node but when i try to run the code using node the node got stuck and nothing is happening.

Also I got this message under console when i try to open the server using link 'http://localhost:8080/'

Failed to load resource: net::ERR_INCOMPLETE_CHUNKED_ENCODING

const http = require('http');

const server = http.createServer((req,res)=>{
    res.write('hello');
});


server.listen(8080);

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The same question is addressed here : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29894154/chrome-neterr-incomplete-chunked-encoding-error — Sagar Kulkarni, May 27 '20 at 06:30
I think you're missing `res.end()` after the `res.write()`: https://nodejs.org/api/http.html#http_response_end_data_encoding_callback. You can simplify it by removing the explicit `write()` and just doing `res.end('hello');`. — mirage, May 27 '20 at 06:35

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 27 '20 at 08:39

You need to explicitly end the response using response.end().

From the documentation:

This method signals to the server that all of the response headers and body have been sent; that server should consider this message complete. The method, response.end(), MUST be called on each response.

This function also takes a data argument, so you can use this to send the message to the client.

const http = require('http');

const server = http.createServer(function (req, res) {
    res.end('hello');
});

server.listen(8080)

Why server created using http module of node is not working for me?

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