Publishing Web Pages
Learn how to publish and return web pages from a custom web server.
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Finally, let’s learn how to serve HTML content so that your web server can come into its own. For example, GET HTTP requests to the "/hello" route should show a basic web page. A naive way to do so would be to simply return an HTML string.
However, things would quickly get out of hands as the complexity of the web page grows. A better solution is to define the HTML content in an external file stored in a dedicated subfolder, and return that file as a result of the request. For example, create a subfolder named views and a ...