In this section, we'll learn how to set up a static directory. So if we have a website with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and images, we can serve that up without needing to provide a custom route for every single file, which would be a real burden. Now setting this up is really simple. But before we make any updates to server.js, we'd create some static assets inside of our project that we can actually serve up.
The static server
Making an HTML page
In this case we'll make one HTML page that we'll be able to view in the browser. Before we get started, we do need to create a new directory, and everything inside this directory will be accessible via the web server, so it's important to not put anything in...
