I needed to serve an HTML page from a Node.js server, and this is the simplest code that does the trick:

const http = require('http')
const fs = require('fs')

const server = http.createServer((req, res) => {
  res.writeHead(200, { 'content-type': 'text/html' })
  fs.createReadStream('index.html').pipe(res)
})

server.listen(process.env.PORT || 3000)

No dependencies needed.

Add this to an app.js file, then create an index.html page, and run node app.js

Notice that the above code does not provide support for serving static assets, it only serves the index.html page.

Lessons in this unit:

0:	Introduction
1:	Run a web server from any folder
2:	HTTP requests in Node using Axios
3:	Make an HTTP POST request using Node
4:	Making HTTP requests with Node
5:	Get HTTP request body data using Node
6:	▶︎ Serve an HTML page using Node.js
7:	Using WebSockets with Node.js