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JavaScript Instance Methods

Posted by Liz Novaski
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Liz Novaski
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 15,762 Points

Guil's code for publishedAt and shortDescription are not working

I've attempted the Nov 11, 2020 solutions and they do not appear to be working either.

3 Answers

Robert Manolis
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Robert Manolis
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Hey Liz Novaski, go ahead and share a snapshot of your code or a GitHub repo so we can check it out. :thumbsup:

Liz Novaski
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Liz Novaski
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It appears to be working as of this morning, so I'm not sure what changed? I was receiving the same error as Jordan describes in their comment where it was just showing the publishedAt() { const date = moment(this.createdAt).format("MMMM D, YYYY, h:mma"); return date; } instead of the formatted date

Jordan Kittle
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Jordan Kittle
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Hey Liz, for me the problem was calling 'publishedAt' in the pug file instead of 'publishedAt()' I hope this helps.

Seth Lewis
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Seth Lewis
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Liz Novaski Jordan Kittle Robert Manolis ,

This also worked for me. First time I think I'd seen calling a function inside a view file.

Thanks, Jordan Kittle !

Joseph Lander
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Joseph Lander
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Yes. Thanks Jordan Kittle. That was my issue too.

James Crosslin
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James Crosslin
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As an additional note, I've had to restart my server manually after changing the initializer in my model. This may be why it worked when you shut down and came back and started your server manually.