node.js - node http-server to respond with index.html to any request

Question

I have installed http-server globally.

I launch it from myDir on localhost port 8080. In myDir I have index.html.

If I request (from the browser) http://localhost:8080/ I get index.html, which is OK.

If I request though http://localhost:8080/anything I do not get any response from the server.

What I would like, on the contrary, is that my server always responds with index.html to any http request reaching localhost on port 8080.

Is this possible.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

To achieve what you are asking for, I recommend you live-server instead of http-server.

live-server --port=8080 --entry-file=./index.html

live-server is also providing a hot-reload but it was not one of your request

Edit: live-server is not designed to be used in production. No gzip compression for example

Edit 2: The maintainer of http-server clearly said in this comment that never, http-server will consider the SPA use-cases

Edit 3: serve seems to be a good option too