Completed building a Node.js Server

README.md

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 # assignment_build_a_nodejs_server
 Building your first Node.js server and exploring the request and response objects
+
+
+Jennifer Louie

app.js

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+const http = require('http');
+const fs = require('fs');
+
+const port = 3000;
+const host = 'localhost';
+
+var server = http.createServer((req, res) => {
+  fs.readFile('./public/index.html', 'utf8', function(err, data) {
+    if (err) {
+      res.writeHead(404);
+      res.end("404 Not Found");
+    } else {
+      res.writeHead(200, {
+        "Content-Type": "text/html"
+      });
+
+      let shallowViewRequest = createViewReq(req);
+      let shallowViewResponse = createViewRes(res);
+      let newHtml = data.replace('{{ req }}', JSON.stringify(shallowViewRequest));
+      newHtml = newHtml.replace('{{ res }}', JSON.stringify(shallowViewResponse));
+      res.end(newHtml);
+    }
+  });
+});
+
+server.listen(port, host, function() {
+  console.log(`Listening at http://${ host }:${ port }`);
+});
+
+function createViewReq(req) {
+  return {
+    url : req.url,
+    method : req.method,
+    httpVersion : req.httpVersion,
+    headers : req.headers
+  };
+}
+
+function createViewRes(res) {
+  return {
+    statusMessage : res.statusMessage,
+    statusCode : res.statusCode,
+    _header : res._header
+  };
+}