Heroku(Cedar) + Node + Express + Jade Client-side javascript files in subdirectory work locally with foreman+curl but not when pushed to Heroku

Question

I am very new to node and heroku and I suspect this is some kind of simple permission issue etc, but I can\'t seem to track it down.

I have several pure javascript files

Answer 1

I recommend you to use process.cwd() value to get specific directory

process.env.PWD = process.cwd()

at the very beginning of your web.js

let you access files easily.

You can do

app.use('/heatcanvas',express.static(process.env.PWD+'/heatcanvas'));

instead of using

__dirname

Warning: Make sure to execute web.js at the root directory of web.js (Heroku web.js are executed that way)