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Alexander Mills
Alexander Mills

Reputation: 100010

Node.js Express - Specifying path to root of app

I am trying to access a folder in my app that contains a few .js controller modules.

in the head of one of my .html files I have this script declared:

the problem is when the app is running, the application seems to know what the current path is, so the path to my script is not relative to the actual file system, it is relative to the current path of the app, which I might say is very strange.

So, the quick fix would be to easily specify the root of my application, since fancy_scripts is just one folder down from the root.

the following doesn't work, because of the problem I mentioned above

<head>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="../fancy_scripts/userHomeController.js"></script>
</head>

but there has to be a way to specify the global root of the app with something like a double slash "//"

<head>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="//fancy_scripts/userHomeController.js"></script>
</head>

(the above doesn't work either, // is the root in MS Windows (I think), but not an Express app) this is a straightforward problem, with I hope a straightforward solution. There might be a better way to do things however.

I have these 3 lines of code already:

app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, 'public'))); 
app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/fancy_scripts')); 
app.use('/fancy_scripts', express.static(__dirname + '/fancy_scripts'));

Upvotes: 0

Views: 980

Answers (1)

Timothy Strimple
Timothy Strimple

Reputation: 23070

When using express, the path will be routed through one of your declared handlers or via the static module if you've set that up. Normally Express is configured to use static and to map it to your applications public folder. When using the express-generator that folder is located at <approot>/public/. So in order to access something like this:

<head>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="/fancy_scripts/userHomeController.js"></script>
</head>

You'll need to put userHomeController in <approot>/public/fancy_scripts/userHomeController.js

Upvotes: 2

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