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denoland-deno/docs/examples/http_server.md
Kitson Kelly 21372d7b25
docs: document Deno's HTTP Server API (#10280)
Co-authored-by: Satya Rohith <me@satyarohith.com>
2021-04-22 06:57:02 +10:00

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# Simple HTTP web server
## Concepts
- Use Deno's integrated HTTP server to run your own web server.
## Overview
With just a few lines of code you can run your own HTTP web server with control
over the response status, request headers and more.
> The _native_ HTTP server is currently unstable, meaning the API is not
> finalized and may change in breaking ways in future version of Deno. To have
> the APIs discussed here available, you must run Deno with the `--unstable`
> flag.
## Sample web server
In this example, the user-agent of the client is returned to the client:
**webserver.ts**:
```ts
// Start listening on port 8080 of localhost.
const server = Deno.listen({ port: 8080 });
console.log(`HTTP webserver running. Access it at: http://localhost:8080/`);
// Connections to the server will be yielded up as an async iterable.
for await (const conn of server) {
// In order to not be blocking, we need to handle each connection individually
// in its own async function.
(async () => {
// This "upgrades" a network connection into an HTTP connection.
const httpConn = Deno.serveHttp(conn);
// Each request sent over the HTTP connection will be yielded as an async
// iterator from the HTTP connection.
for await (const requestEvent of httpConn) {
// The native HTTP server uses the web standard `Request` and `Response`
// objects.
const body = `Your user-agent is:\n\n${requestEvent.request.headers.get(
"user-agent",
) ?? "Unknown"}`;
// The requestEvent's `.respondWith()` method is how we send the response
// back to the client.
requestEvent.respondWith(
new Response(body, {
status: 200,
}),
);
}
})();
}
```
Then run this with:
```shell
deno run --allow-net --unstable webserver.ts
```
Then navigate to `http://localhost:8080/` in a browser.
### Using the `std/http` library
If you do not want to use the unstable APIs, you can still use the standard
library's HTTP server:
**webserver.ts**:
```ts
import { serve } from "https://deno.land/std@$STD_VERSION/http/server.ts";
const server = serve({ port: 8080 });
console.log(`HTTP webserver running. Access it at: http://localhost:8080/`);
for await (const request of server) {
let bodyContent = "Your user-agent is:\n\n";
bodyContent += request.headers.get("user-agent") || "Unknown";
request.respond({ status: 200, body: bodyContent });
}
```
Then run this with:
```shell
deno run --allow-net webserver.ts
```