Can't get index.html to show with Express in Nodejs

Question

I\'m trying to run my first express app, but can\'t seem to get my webpage to show. I have the following code:

var fs = require(\"fs\");
var config = JSON.parse         


        

Answer 1

Your app will only route page requests that are set up at the time of your app.use(app.router) call. So reorder your app.use calls to be one of the following:

Express 3

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

__dirname is the directory that the executing script resides in, so because that lives in the js directory that's a peer to public your code would need to be:

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

Express 4

Express 4 removes the need to manually do app.use(app.router). With Express 4 you just need:

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