The static server
In this section, we'll learn how to set up a static directory. So if we have a website with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and images, we can serve that up without needing to provide a custom route for every single file, which would be a real burden. Now setting this up is really simple. But before we make any updates to server.js, we'd create some static assets inside of our project that we can actually serve up.
Making an HTML page
In this case we'll make one HTML page that we'll be able to view in the browser. Before we get started, we do need to create a new directory, and everything inside this directory will be accessible via the web server, so it's important to not put anything in here that you don't want prying eyes to see.
Everything in the directory should be intended to be view able by anybody. We'll create a public folder to store all of our static assets, and inside here we'll make an HTML page. We'll create a help page for our example project by creating a file called...
