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JavaScript Build a Simple Dynamic Site with Node.js Creating a Basic Template Engine in Node.js Reading from Files

Posted by Chip Carnes
Chip Carnes
20,960 Points

No such file or directory, open './views/header.html'

When working on the filesystem part of this video, I'm getting this error once I try to run the server from a localhost.

fs.js:549 return binding.open(pathModule._makeLong(path), stringToFlags(flags), mode); ^

Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open './views/header.html' at Error (native) at Object.fs.openSync (fs.js:549:18) at Object.fs.readFileSync (fs.js:397:15) at Object.view (/Users/chipcarnes/Documents/Programming Courses/Treehouse Courses/Build a dynamic site with Node/renderer.js:5:27) at Object.home (/Users/chipcarnes/Documents/Programming Courses/Treehouse Courses/Build a dynamic site with Node/router.js:9:14) at Server.<anonymous> (/Users/chipcarnes/Documents/Programming Courses/Treehouse Courses/Build a dynamic site with Node/app.js:8:10) at emitTwo (events.js:87:13) at Server.emit (events.js:172:7) at HTTPParser.parserOnIncoming [as onIncoming] (_http_server.js:521:12) at HTTPParser.parserOnHeadersComplete (_http_common.js:88:23)

Here's my code from the renderer.js file:

var fs = require('fs');

function view(templateName, values, response) { //read from template files var fileContents = fs.readFileSync('./views/' + templateName + '.html'); //insert values in to the Content //write out the contents to the response response.write(fileContents); }

module.exports.view = view;

Anyone know what's going on here or what to do about the server error?

Krysttian Duncan
Krysttian Duncan
2,373 Points
Krysttian Duncan
Krysttian Duncan
2,373 Points

If someone comes back to this, remember you remove the \n from the routes.js file from the renderer.view line. thats what did it for me atleast!