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Bruno Silva
Bruno Silva

Reputation: 119

Node.js app TypeError [ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE]: The "path" argument must be of type string. Received type object

I'm trying to create a folder view/circle where Im gonna be able to render the array but when I do localhost:3001/views/circle is not loading anything, instead I get the error on the title....................................................................................................................

//-------I added this part in the code as you can see bellow this code-------
//const path = require("path");

//app.set("views", path.join(__dirname, "views"));
//app.set("view engine", "ejs");
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
const express = require('express')
const path = require("path");
const cors = require('cors')
const app = express()


// view engine setup
app.set("views", path.join(__dirname, "views"));
app.set("view engine", "ejs");

app.use(express.static('public'))
app.use(cors())

const circles = [
    {
        id: 1,
        name: 'Twitter',
        image: 'img/twitter.jpg',
        color: '#aa2b31',
        size: 3
    },
    {
        id: 2,
        name: 'Facebook',
        image: 'img/facebook.jpg',
        color: '#63e184',
        size: 1
    },
    {
        id: 3,
        name: 'Skype',
        image: 'img/skype.png',
        color: '#033d49',
        size: 2
    },
]



app.get('/', (req, res) => {
    const help = `

    `

    res.send(help)
  })

app.get('/circles', (req, res) => {
    res.render(circles)
})

app.listen(3001, () => {
  console.log('Server listening on port 3001')
})

module.exports = app;

Upvotes: 1

Views: 9014

Answers (2)

75martin
75martin

Reputation: 105

I got this because I had placed the routes in incorrect order. My /:id path caught the post request before it got to where it was supposed to.

Upvotes: 2

Sherwin
Sherwin

Reputation: 1

Replace set with use:

from

app.set("views", path.join(__dirname, "views"));

to

app.use("views", path.join(__dirname, "views"));

Upvotes: 0

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