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enguerranws
enguerranws

Reputation: 8233

Node JS / Socket.io : include JS lib in HTML

That's surely a noob question, but the thing is : how can I easily include JS libs to the front-end part of a Node (with Socket.io) app ?

What I did in my HTML file : 

<script src="libs/hammer.js"></script>

This HTML file is handled by Node : 

app.get('/', function(request, response){  
  response.sendFile(__dirname + '/index.html');
});

So, as expected, the client can't find http://127.0.0.1:3000/libs/hammer.js (assuming I'm running locally on port 3000) : it returns a 404 on that request.

Should I handle those libs with node_modules ? or something else ? I'm pretty lost on that question.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 143

Answers (1)

Ben Fortune
Ben Fortune

Reputation: 32127

Assuming you're using express, you need to serve them with express.static.

Add this to your middleware stack:

app.use('/libs', express.static(__dirname + '/libs'));

Upvotes: 1

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