How to render the browser error 404 with nodejs

Question

It may sound really stupid but is it possible to render the default browser error page with NodeJS?

All I found on the internet, is to make personalized content (a simple text <res.send('Page not found')>, a blank page <res.end()> or a custom page) but not the default page of the browser. And if I do not return a response, the browser waits until timeout.

Answer 1

It seems Firefox doesn't have a default 404 page (despite it has an unavailable page when accessing a random non-existing website, which is different error).

Assuming you're using Express, the simple response code that you may have seen :

res.status(404).end();

makes Chrome (Chromium 107.0.5304.87) displaying its own error page as expected, but not firefox (107).

Source is a bit outdated, but seems still relevant.