How can I improve this Node.js file's routing?

Question

Being new to Node.js, I'd like to know of a better way of implementing this:

server = http.createServer( function(req, res) {
if (req.url === '/') {
 fs.readFile('index.html', function(err, page) {
 res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/html'});
 res.write(page);
 res.end();
 });
} 
 else if (req.url == '/new.html') { 
 fs.readFile('new.html', function(err, page) {
 res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/html'});
 res.write(page);
 res.end();
 });
}
});
server.listen(8080);

Using something like this:

var Url = require('url')
...
// In request handler
var uri = Url.parse(req.url);
switch (uri.pathname) {
 case "/":
 ..
 case "/new.html":
 ..
}

• Raynos: Use a router like express.
• Simpleton: Other than using a framework...
• Raynos: If you want static routing you can write a naive static router

Answer 1

Whether you wanna implement a static server? If so, you can just use connect and its built-in static middlewave. With it, you just need to write the following code to implement a static server:

var connect = require("connect");
connect(
 connect.static(__dirname)
).listen(3000);

That's it.