Node Hello World Server
A very simple node.js http server.
Port
The server looks for the following when determining the server port
--port <integer>
command line flagprocess.env["PORT"]
3000
default
Response
The server responds to all requests with the content "hello world\n"
Installation
[sudo] npm install -g hello-world-server
Usage
Once the package is installed globally, you can start it on the command line
# start the server hello-world-server
To run on a
Then connect to the server to make sure it is running. You can visit http://localhost:3000 in your browser and you should see the text "Hello World"
appear
Alternatively in the terminal you can use curl to connect to the server.
curl localhost:3000/# you should receive "Hello World\n" back
If you have changed the server port via process.env["PORT"]
you will need to change the port in the examples above accordingly
Docker & Vagrant
You can test this server using Vagrant and Docker.
Builds a container to run a
Usage
Pull down the image and run the default command
vagrant upvagrant ssh# pull existing image docker pull nisaacson/hello-world-server# or build it yourself docker build $USER/hello-world-server . # run the server in detached mode $PORT=4545docker run -d -i -p 4000:4545 -e PORT=4545 -t nisaacson/hello-world-server:latest# curl the server to make sure it is running...should get back "hello world\n" curl localhost:$PORT