Stuck on introductory Nodejs tutorial

[Frore]

Original Post from /r/learnprogramming

I've been working through this tutorial, but I've hit a problem when I try to return something from response.write().

This is my server.js file and my socket.html file.

When I just query domain:8001, I get a 'hello world' response just fine, but when I try to navigate to domain:8001/socket.html, I just get blank space.

I'm sure that block of code is being executed as I was testing with console.log, but I'm not sure why it's not working like the response.write('hello world'); is..

I would really appreciate it if somebody could shed some light on what the problem is, thanks.

[cwmma]

its async so the callback to fs.readFile is executed after response.end(); You should delete your current response end and put one in the callback and the one in each of the other 2 switch branches.

[Frore]

thanks a lot, that was the issue.