Express Serving Static Files

use express.static middleware to serve static css, html and js (client side) files -- directly from their URIs

 

below indicates the public subdirectory in main appication directory contains the static files. NOTE: this is in the www.js file in a WebStorm IDE based app

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

Now, you can load the files that are in the public directory: (assuming listing at port 3000)

  http://localhost:3000/images/kitten.jpg
  http://localhost:3000/css/style.css
  http://localhost:3000/js/app.js
  http://localhost:3000/images/bg.png
  http://localhost:3000/hello.html

Express looks up the files relative to the static directory, so the name of the static directory is not part of the URL.