jayco

/* log to the console:

This allows us to log the output to the console for development purposes,
no different to how it is done in browser oriented javascript

*/
console.log('server running at http://127.0.0.1:8124/');

jayco

/* Create the new server:

Create server and pass it an anonymous function as the argument.
The reason for this is that the function will be
called whenever there is a new request to the webserver. The function is
directly attached to the new webservers (http_server) event listener for
the request event that is passed.

*/
http_server.createServer(

jayco

// Hello world example in nodejs
//writen by jayco

// Create server variable and assign it the node http module
var http_server = require('http');