Im trying out setting up a webserver with nodeJS with this code:

const http = require("http")
const port = 8080
const fs = require("fs")

const server = http.createServer(function (req, res) {
    res.writeHead(200, { "Content-Type": "text/html" })
    fs.readFile("index.html", function (error, data) {
        if (error) {
            res.writeHead(404)
            res.write("Error")
        } else {
            res.write(data)
        }
        res.end
        
    })
})

server.listen(port, function (error) {
    if (error) {
        console.log("Something went wrong")
    } else {
        console.log("Server is listening on port "   port)
    }
})

But when I connect on any browser(tried chrome and mozilla) using either localhost or 127.0.0.1 the page will only show when I shut the server down. It's constantly loading, not showing anything until I shutdown with ctrl C. Then it will show my HTML page. Same problem was when I didnt use an html page and just responded with

res.write("hey")

CodePudding user response：

res.end is a function, try res.end()

You had never ended the request so the browser has been waiting for it to end and it only happened when you closed the server.

CodePudding user response：

Because you just show the method

res.end

but not run it.