public folder does not work as advertised

[clemens-tolboom]

When having just the ./public folder the default behaviour is serving an empty page. So I changed the text accordingly.

I rather had the API pages still intact and it would be great that get access to it even after creating a ./public/index.

[clemens-tolboom]

Hmmm ... my conclusion was wrong. Curl reports 404 Not found but the body contains {} maybe the right respons?

curl -vvvv http://localhost:3000/
*   Trying ::1...
* connect to ::1 port 3000 failed: Connection refused
*   Trying 127.0.0.1...
* Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 3000 (#0)
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> Host: localhost:3000
> User-Agent: curl/7.43.0
> Accept: */*
> 
< HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
< X-Powered-By: Express
< Vary: Origin, Accept-Encoding
< Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true
< Cache-Control: no-cache
< Pragma: no-cache
< Expires: -1
< X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
< Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
< Content-Length: 2
< ETag: W/"2-mZFLkyvTelC5g8XnyQrpOw"
< Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2016 11:58:23 GMT
< Connection: keep-alive
< 
* Connection #0 to host localhost left intact
{}%

This now seems to me as when creating a public folder you must add an index.html with it.