“Cannot Get /” When Trying to Connect to Localhost:8080 in Node. Js [Closed]

I am working on backbone.js application with node.js as backend server. the application is based on twitter API. When requesting to localhost:8080 I got the error "Cannot GET /" in the browser and I do not know what is the matter. My code is as follows:

server.js

var express = require('express');
var app = express();

var Twit = require('twit')

var client = null;


function connectToTwitter(){
   client = new Twit({
      consumer_key:         'xxx'
    , consumer_secret:      'xxx'
    , access_token:         'xxx'
    , access_token_secret:  'xxx'
  });
}

//get the app to connect to twitter.
connectToTwitter();

var allowCrossDomain = function(req, response, next) {
response.header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', "");
response.header('Access-Control-Allow-Methods', 'OPTIONS, GET,PUT,POST,DELETE');
response.header('Access-Control-Allow-Headers', 'Content-Type');

if ('OPTIONS' == req.method) {
  response.send(200);
}
else {
  next();
}
};

app.configure(function() {
    app.use(allowCrossDomain);
  //Parses the JSON object given in the body request
    app.use(express.bodyParser());
});

//Start server
var port = 8080;
app.listen( port, function() {
  console.log( 'Express server listening on port %d in %s mode', port, app.settings.env );
});

Directory structure in general:

C:\Users\eva\Desktop\twitter application\server\server.js 
                                        \client\index.html 
                                                \js

Can someone tell me why this error occur?

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You need to implement what server must response on / requests. For example:

app.get('/', function(req, res, next) {
    res.send("Hello world");
});

Without it, express doesn't know how to handle /.

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