Angular Seed project, set index.html by default

Question

I am using the Angular Seed project to build a simple website. When i start the node server and enter the url at localhost:8000, it serves up the directory contents. I would like it to serve up the index.html file but would like to do this without a redirect.

I believe that I need to modify the following function and that I should change the code for the isDirectory check but I'm not sure if that is the correct way to go about doing this. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

StaticServlet.prototype.handleRequest = function(req, res) {
    var self = this;
    var path = ('./' + req.url.pathname).replace('//','/').replace(/%(..)/g, function(match, hex){
        return String.fromCharCode(parseInt(hex, 16));
    });
    var parts = path.split('/');
    if (parts[parts.length-1].charAt(0) === '.')
        return self.sendForbidden_(req, res, path);
    fs.stat(path, function(err, stat) {
        if (err)
            return self.sendMissing_(req, res, path);
        if (stat.isDirectory())
            return self.sendDirectory_(req, res, path);
        return self.sendFile_(req, res, path);
    });
}

Update #1

I have two screenshots to clarify. The first image is what I currently get, the second image is what I want.

What I Get

What I Want

Update #2

Using the link to Restify below I found the following example which is exactly what I needed.

var server = restify.createServer();
var io = socketio.listen(server);

server.get('/', function indexHTML(req, res, next) {
    fs.readFile(__dirname + '/index.html', function (err, data) {
        if (err) {
            next(err);
            return;
        }

        res.setHeader('Content-Type', 'text/html');
        res.writeHead(200);
        res.end(data);
        next();
});


io.sockets.on('connection', function (socket) {
    socket.emit('news', { hello: 'world' });
    socket.on('my other event', function (data) {
            console.log(data);
    });
});

server.listen(8080, function () {
    console.log('socket.io server listening at %s', server.url);
});

This should also work to server static html: server.get("/", restify.serveStatic({ directory: './public', default: 'index.html' })); — r03
– r03, Commented Apr 13, 2013 at 8:26

r03 · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-13 09:50:24Z

2

The angular-seed project is a starting point for the client, but not really for the server side. They included a simple web-server node script without dependencies. This way you don't need npm or other modules.

For the server side you can use node with connect/express or any other web server/language. You just need to make rest services and serve some static html.

Since you have already installed Node restify may be something for you.

Update: I created a basic sample for using the angular-seed with restify:
https://github.com/roelandmoors/restify-angular-seed

edited Apr 13, 2013 at 9:50

answered Apr 12, 2013 at 17:32

r03

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jamesamuir Over a year ago

Great answer and you even provided a link! I even found a concrete example of what I need to do using Socket.IO. Thank you so much.

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