Add Express’s static server middleware as a second argument to the app.use(‘/static’) function, with the path to the pub

Question

I always get a bummer: _dirname is not defined. What am I doing wrong?

app.js

'use strict';

var express = require('express'),
    posts = require('./mock/posts.json');

var app = express();

app.use("/static", express.static(_dirname + "/public"))

app.set('view engine', 'jade');
app.set('views', __dirname + '/templates');

app.get('/', function(req, res){
  res.render('index');
});

app.get('/blog/:title?', function(req, res){ 
  var title = req.params.title;
  if (title === undefined) {
    res.status(503);
    res.send("This page is under construction!");
  } else {
    var post = posts[title] || {};
    res.render('post', { post: post});
  }
});

app.listen(3000, function() {
  console.log("The frontend server is running on port 3000!");
});

Answer 1 · 2015-09-21T15:05:18Z

September 21, 2015 3:05pm

Hi. This is simply caused by a miss spell. __dirname is the correct name.
You can see all the globals defined by Node here: https://nodejs.org/api/globals.html#globals_dirname

Answer 2 · 2015-12-10T05:32:02Z

December 10, 2015 5:32am

Dry Answer ... Challenge Task 1 of 2 Call Express’s use method, with the parameter “/static”. This is the URL that the static server will be mounted to.

app.use("/static", express.static(__dirname + "/public"))

Answer 3 · 2016-04-15T17:07:43Z

April 15, 2016 5:07pm

The correct answer uses two underlines, otherwise you'll get an error. app.use("/static", express.static(__dirname + "/public"))

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