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Arpit Anand
Arpit Anand

Reputation: 397

path.join() yeilds duplicate or none

I have a pretty weird situation here.

1. When I use this code in my tokens.js file

const pathToPrivKey = path.join(__dirname, "..", "src/helpers/key/id_rsa_priv.pem");

The error is:

Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'C:\Users\arpitanand\Desktop\node-app\src\src\helpers\key\id_rsa_priv.pem'

Notice that src is automatically duplicated in the path string as \src\src\

2. When I use this code in my tokens.js file:

const pathToPrivKey = path.join(__dirname, "..", "helpers/key/id_rsa_priv.pem");

The error is:

Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'C:\Users\arpitanand\Desktop\node-app\helpers\key\id_rsa_pub.pem'

Notice here that now both the /src/src/ is absent!

This is my folder structure:

----src
|   |
|   +---controller
|   |
|   +---helpers
|   |   |   tokens.js  //I am here
|   |   +---key
|   |           id_rsa_priv.pem //I want to access this file
|   |           id_rsa_pub.pem
+---test
        deleteUser.js

UPDATE

1. The output console.log(_dirname) is:

C:\Users\arpitanand\Desktop\node-app\src\helpers

2. And I have already ran this

const pathToPrivKey = path.join(__dirname, "key/id_rsa_priv.pem");

The result of which is:

Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'C:\Users\arpitanand\Desktop\node-app\helpers\key\id_rsa_priv.pem'

3. I use the pathToPrivKey here and only here:

const PRIV_KEY = fs.readFileSync(pathToPrivKey, "utf8");

Upvotes: 1

Views: 69

Answers (2)

Arpit Anand
Arpit Anand

Reputation: 397

Ok, So I don't really know what was happening with my code before but I tried cleaning the npm cache using npm cache clean --force along with deleting my node modules and reinstalling them and it worked!

Upvotes: 1

AKX
AKX

Reputation: 169338

__dirname is the directory in which the module resides, not e.g. the working directory of the program.

If you have code in src/helpers/tokens.js and want to refer to src/helpers/key/id_rsa_priv.pem,

const keyPath = path.join(__dirname, "key/id_rsa_priv.pem");

is enough.

Upvotes: 2

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