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simusid
simusid

Reputation: 1904

Express and express-mailer

I'm new to node js and express. I installed express-mailer using npm with no problems. From the (mac) command line I generated an express (4.13.1) app with "express". Per the github instructions I modified app.js and changed:

var express = require('express');

to 

var express = require('express')(),
    mailer = require('express-mailer');`

but then "node start" crashes with:

/Users/gary/mailertest/node_modules/express/node_modules/finalhandler/index.js:58
var status = res.statusCode
                 ^
TypeError: Cannot read property 'statusCode' of undefined`

I launch a node session and I know the var express = ... succeeds. The line that fails is the subsequent:

var app = express();

I definitely don't understand all the pieces here so I'm not sure how to continue troubleshooting this.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1031

Answers (1)

Wilson
Wilson

Reputation: 9136

From what I read from your code description:

    var express = require('express')(), 
      mailer=require('express-mailer');

    //.. some code here

    var app = express();

You should not instantiate two times express, instead you should instantiate express once:

    var express = require('express'), 

    //.. some code here

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

So even after you run successfully your example, bear in mind about what it says in node-mailers documentation:

Works with Express 3.x.x

And you are working with the express version 4.x, so not sure if this express-mailer library may have some issues with this aspect of express version.

Upvotes: 1

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