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Express: Serving Static Assets with Express

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It’s common to have images, CSS and more in a public subfolder, and expose them to the root level:

const express = require('express')
const app = express()

app.use(express.static('public'))

/* ... */

app.listen(3000, () => console.log('Server ready'))

If you have an index.html file in public/, it will be served when you request the root URL (http://localhost:3000).

Lessons in this unit:

0: Introduction
1: Introduction to Express
2: Request parameters
3: Send a response to the client
4: Send a JSON response
5: Manage cookies
6: Work with HTTP headers
7: Handling redirects
8: Routing
9: Template engines
10: Middleware
11: ▶︎ Serving Static Assets with Express
12: Send files to the client
13: Sessions
14: Validating and sanitizing input
15: Handling form data
16: Handling CORS
17: HTTPS with a self-signed certificate
18: HTTPS with Let's Encrypt
19: Handling file uploads
20: Build a REST API with MongoDB