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

I had this issue .... after a lot of trouble I find that if you run two workspaces or project at t time then it will create this scenario. so you might open only a workspace at a time and not just file ... open the hole folder then run the specific file.make the following change in your VS code setting.

setup the settings

For 64bit system.

{
    "liveServer.settings.AdvanceCustomBrowserCmdLine: ": "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe",
    "liveServer.settings.NoBrowser": false
}

For 32bit system.

{
    "liveServer.settings.AdvanceCustomBrowserCmdLine: ": "C:\\Program Files\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe",
    "liveServer.settings.NoBrowser": false
}

Answer 2

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"));