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JavaScript

Posted by Aleks Dahlberg
Aleks Dahlberg
19,103 Points

How can I access Express req.local variables in another clientside javascript file

I want to access local variables from express and use them in other client side javascript files.

How would I retrieve this data?

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
243,656 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
243,656 Points

I haven't looked into the internals of Express, but any good JavaScript framework should be written to encapsulate its local variables. They should therefore not be accessible directly from other files.

I would expect first that whatever you may be trying to accomplish might be done through facilities provided by the framework API. If not, and it was absolutely necessary to get to some internal variables, you may need to modify the framework code to add accessor methods for the variables you need to use.