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JavaScript

Posted by Matthew Garza
Matthew Garza
26,312 Points

jQuery, pug, express help please.

I am doing a side/practice project with jQuery plugins and i cannot get my scripts to load on my pug template. It keeps 404ing.

1 Answer

Alexander La Bianca
Alexander La Bianca
15,959 Points
Alexander La Bianca
Alexander La Bianca
15,959 Points

With express you need to specify your static files. In your app.js file where your express server is instantiated do the following:

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

Now put all your static files (css, javascript) into the '/public' folder which needs to be placed in the root just like app.js. In /public have a folder /css and /js. So in the end the structure might look like

views
public
--css
--js
---jquer
---main.js
app.js

This will just tell express which files should be available outside of your server.