How can I improve this Node.js file's routing?

Question

Being new to Node.js, I'd like to know of a better way of implementing this:

server = http.createServer( function(req, res) {
if (req.url === '/') {
        fs.readFile('index.html', function(err, page) {
            res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/html'});
            res.write(page);
            res.end();
        });
}   
 else if (req.url == '/new.html') { 
        fs.readFile('new.html', function(err, page) {
                res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/html'});
                res.write(page);
                res.end();
        });
}
});
server.listen(8080);

Using something like this:

var Url = require('url')
...

// In request handler
var uri = Url.parse(req.url);
switch (uri.pathname) {
  case "/":
    ..
  case "/new.html":
    ..
}

Answer 1

Whether you wanna implement a static server? If so, you can just use connect and its built-in static middlewave. With it, you just need to write the following code to implement a static server:

var connect = require("connect");

connect(
    connect.static(__dirname)
).listen(3000);

That's it.