I'm pretty new to node and I'm trying to create a simple server for my website but when I type in node server.js in command prompt nothing happens.

var http = require("http");  
http.createServer(function(request, response) {
       response.writeHead(200, {"Content-Type": "text/plain"});
       response.write("It's alive!");
       response.end();
}).listen(3000);

This is what I see when I try to run my server.js file:

I'm fairly certain my code is right, is there anything else I'm doing wrong?

I'm pretty new to node and I'm trying to create a simple server for my website but when I type in node server.js in command prompt nothing happens.

var http = require("http");  
http.createServer(function(request, response) {
       response.writeHead(200, {"Content-Type": "text/plain"});
       response.write("It's alive!");
       response.end();
}).listen(3000);

This is what I see when I try to run my server.js file:

I'm fairly certain my code is right, is there anything else I'm doing wrong?

• javascript
• node.js
• web

• how long did you wait? looks to me like there is no error there. – Coding Enthusiast Commented Jul 24, 2015 at 16:43

5 Answers 5

The server is working just fine. You need to visit http://localhost:3000/ from your browser to view the expected output ("It's alive!").

To write messages to the console, use console.log().

The console output you show seems correct given your code.

Did you open a webbrowser and try opening http://localhost:3000?

If you want to see some console output to confirm your server started up, try adding this at the end of your server.js file:

console.log('Server running at http://localhost:3000');

You only need to hit the URL http://localhost:3000.

The server is already started after you hit the command "node server.js" and you will get the output - "It's alive!" because of this line present in your code: response.write("It's alive!");

First time starting up node server made a very small mistake of not calling "response.end" as a function that made the server not response and take very long to load. Should have been response.end()

const server = http.createServer(function(request, response){
response.writeHead(200,{'Content-Type': 'text/html'})
response.write('Hello Node')
response.end 
})

Change the port to 5000, and then go to http://localhost:5000/. There may be other service running on localhost:3000.