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jpersson 14b3aab7d2 doc: add links and backticks around names
* add backticks around names
* add single quotes around event names
* add parenthesis after function names
* add internal links between different sections
* add external links to MDN for some JavaScript references
* sort the link definitions alphabetically

PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4054
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Roman Reiss <me@silverwind.io>
2015-12-03 13:39:09 -08:00

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Synopsis

An example of a web server written with Node.js which responds with 'Hello World':

var http = require('http');

http.createServer(function (request, response) {
  response.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});
  response.end('Hello World\n');
}).listen(8124);

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

To run the server, put the code into a file called example.js and execute it with the node program

> node example.js
Server running at http://127.0.0.1:8124/

All of the examples in the documentation can be run similarly.