A very simple hello-world http server in Coffeescript

hello-world-server.coffee

###
  A hello world server written in Coffeescript
  
  Step 0: Install Node.js `brew install node`
  Step 1: Install Coffeescript `npm install -g coffee-script`
  Step 2: `coffee -c hello-world-server.coffee`
  Step 3: `node hello-world-server`
  Step 4: point your browser of choice at http://localhost:8000
  …
  Profit!

  `control-c` to quit.

  Thrown together hastily by Dave Sag <[email protected]>
###

http = require "http"
 
http.createServer( (req, res) ->
  body = "Hello World!"
  headers =
    'Content-Type': "text/plain"
    'Content-Length': body.length

  res.writeHead 200, headers
  res.end body, 'utf8'
).listen 8000
 
console.log "Server running at http://127.0.0.1:8000/"