building a web server in nodejs code example

Example 1: simple node server

// content of index.js
const http = require('http')
const port = 3000

const requestHandler = (request, response) => {
  console.log(request.url)
  response.end('Hello Node.js Server!')
}

const server = http.createServer(requestHandler)

server.listen(port, (err) => {
  if (err) {
    return console.log('something bad happened', err)
  }

  console.log(`server is listening on ${port}`)
})

Example 2: how to create a server in node js

// code by VARSHITH REDDY SATTI
// to create a server in node.js you should.
var http = require('http');
http.createServer(function (req, res) {
  res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/html'});
  res.write("write html code to display you test")
  res.end();
}).listen(8080);
// save this as httpServer.js
// run this by typing node httpServer.js in the command line
// to acess your server got to http://localhost:8080