Getting started (HTML can't load JS, CSS or images)

Found these two bits of information which seems like what I was looking for:

Will be trying them to see if it works. Although exposing a ‘public’ folder (or a ‘js’, ‘css’ and ‘images’ would be preferred) over adding routing maps in Node.js.

Now I just have to figure out why when I copy files in the Console it never shows up in my project. Same goes with creating directories, etc.