Last Updated: February 25, 2016

promises and http module w/connect static server

simple factory function for creating a basic static server.


var http = require('http')
, Promise = Promise || require('es6-promise').Promise
, conn = require('connect')
;

function createServer (pub, port) {
 var app, server
 ;

 return new Promise(function(resolve, reject){
 app = conn()
 .use(conn.errorHandler({dumpExceptions: true, showStack: true}))
 .use(conn.static(pub))
 //.use(someAwesomeMiddleware())



 var server = http.createServer(app)
 .on('error', reject)
 .on('listening', function(){
 resolve(server)
 })
 .listen(port)
 })
}

module.exports = createServer

And use like so.


function errorHandler (err) {
 throw err
}

createServer('./public', 8181).then(function(server){
 // do stuff with server here.
 console.log('serving on port:', server.address().port)

}).catch(errorHandler)