NodeJS Can only connect when Server is shutdown

Im trying out setting up a webserver with nodeJS with this code:

const http = require("http")
const port = 8080
const fs = require("fs")

const server = http.createServer(function (req, res) {
    res.writeHead(200, { "Content-Type": "text/html" })
    fs.readFile("index.html", function (error, data) {
        if (error) {
            res.writeHead(404)
            res.write("Error")
        } else {
            res.write(data)
        }
        res.end
        
    })
})

server.listen(port, function (error) {
    if (error) {
        console.log("Something went wrong")
    } else {
        console.log("Server is listening on port " + port)
    }
})

But when I connect on any browser(tried chrome and mozilla) using either localhost or 127.0.0.1 the page will only show when I shut the server down. It’s constantly loading, not showing anything until I shutdown with ctrl + C. Then it will show my HTML page. Same problem was when I didnt use an html page and just responded with

res.write("hey")

Answer

res.end is a function, try res.end()

You had never ended the request so the browser has been waiting for it to end and it only happened when you closed the server.

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