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JavaScript

Posted by David Hughes
David Hughes
5,063 Points

App not being 'served'

I got everything setup, and was receiving the same error as the video: "Cannot GET /". I made the changes to the app.js

app.use('/', express.static('public'));

But when I refresh my page at http://localhost:3000/ nothing changes. There is a console error that says "Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found). I have MAMP running, do I need to make some adjustments to get this to work?

Also when I just open the index.html inside of the public folder in the cloned repo, it doesn't work.

Jesus Mendoza
Jesus Mendoza
23,289 Points

Hey David, add the following code

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

This will tell the app that everytime it sees /public, it needs to look for resources at the path given (which is __dirname, the current directory where your main app is located, and /public). and then access the resources from

<link href="/public/..pathtoyourresource">
<script src="/public/..pathtoyourresource">