Difficulty with absolute and relative paths in Express

Question

I have a route for an API in an Express app that looks like this:

app.get(\'/:username/:bookmark/\', function(req, res) {

  // do stuff

})

As

Answer 1

Here's a concrete example, take the typical use-case of serving files in ./public using the express.static() middleware:

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