Spent multiple hours learning nodejs and how synchronous calls work. Currently the server includes a header and footer file.

includes.js

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+/**
+ Includes.js
+ File used for getting the header and footer
+ */
+const utils = require('./utils.js');
+
+const HEADER_FILE = "includes/header.html";
+
+const FOOTER_FILE = "includes/footer.html";
+
+module.exports =
+{
+    printHeader: function(res)
+    {
+        res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/html'});
+        utils.include(res, HEADER_FILE);
+        //res.write("Header<br>");
+    },
+    printFooter: function(res)
+    {
+        //res.write("footer");
+        utils.include(res, FOOTER_FILE);
+        res.end();
+    }
+};

server.js

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+var http = require('http');
+const url = require('url');
+const fs = require('fs');
+const utils = require('./utils.js');
+const includes = require('./includes.js');
+
+http.createServer(function (req, res)
+{
+    var q = url.parse(req.url, true);
+    var filename = "." + q.pathname;
+
+    //prints header
+    includes.printHeader(res);
+
+    utils.include(res, "README.md");
+
+    if(filename.includes("/category"))
+    {
+        console.log("categories");
+        test();
+    }
+    else if(filename.includes("/posts/"))
+    {
+        console.log("posts");
+    }
+    else if(filename.includes("/downloads/"))
+    {
+        console.log("downloads");
+    }
+    else
+    {
+        console.log("default");
+    }
+    includes.printFooter(res);
+}).listen(8080);

utils.js

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+/**
+ Utilities is a node modules created to make tasks like
+ including html files easier for me programming.
+ */
+
+const fs = require('fs');
+
+module.exports=
+{
+    include: function(res, fileName)
+    {
+        res.write(fs.readFileSync(fileName));
+    }
+};