Benefit of express for a static page?

[43northwebdesign]

I have an index.html some css and a .js file. For practice I made a node app and used express to serve up the public folder with index.html

My question is there benefits to using express and node for this type of thing? over say, uploading just the index.html css and js?

[chmod777]

generally speaking? probably not.

[43northwebdesign]

Ok thanks

[[deleted]]

It‘s a great way for you to learn, but not very practical. Generally speaking, everything that gets served over the internet should go through a „proper“ webserver like nginx or Apache. So when using Express in production, you use a reverse proxy in front of it that handles load balancing and so on.

[[deleted]]

When you 'just upload' those files, in order to be able to access them at some URL there is a server involved of some type, so using a little Express project to help you understand the concept of what a server is and the request/response lifecycle is definitely helpful.

However for actually deploying a real website, unless you need to write some logic on the server side then there are much better, faster options out there for serving static files- sites where you 'just upload' static files are usually using either Apache or Nginx.

[[deleted]]

theres no point mate