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so I figured out the issue, restarting and reloading nginx didn't have any effect, but if I stoped the nginx instance, then restarted it, any changes I made to the server files took effect. It's great that I figured it out, but could anyone give me some insight into why this is? It's better if I understand why this was happening. Any changes I made to the client side files such as the html files took affect immediately, it was only the server files that I had to stop then restart the nginx instance for it to take affect.
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Any changes I make to the server side files of my deployed Node.js app with express.js isn't being seen by ubuntu. Basically, I have a mean app deployed on ubunut, it is a multipage page app, with only one of those pages having partials, so i use my routes.js
to catch the routes and send them to my main.js file to tell express and node which html or ejs file to load.
I made changes to the version on my computer so that all other routes would go to a certain html, it works great. But I pushed my changes to github, then pulled them in my ubuntu instance, and it's not working. All other changes I made to the project during this time that were pushed with it have taken affect. But, it's like ubuntu isn't letting node see any changes to the routes.js file, the code is there, I've even altered it with 'vim' from my terminal, but any changes I make, even ones that should break it, aren't seen by node. And going to an unexpected route displays the 'cannot GET...' page.
I've wracked my brain, but i'm stumped, the code is there and I can change it, I've altered html pages via vim to test it. But both, the routes.js file that handles my routing and my server.js file aren't reflecting my changes, even when I change things that should break it. Any ideas? Let me know if you need anymore info, i've included my files below. Also, I use nodemon so that it restarts automatically anytime changes are made
SERVER.JS FILE -------------------------------
var express = require('express'),
app = express(),
path = require('path'),
bodyParser = require('body-parser')
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({extended: true}))
app.use(bodyParser.json())
app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, './client')))
app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, './client/views')))
app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, './bower_components')))
app.set('views', path.join(__dirname, './client'));
app.set('view engine', 'ejs');
require('./server/config/routes.js')(app)
var port = 8000
app.listen(port, function(){
console.log('Server on port: ' + port)
})
ROUTES.JS FILE -----------------------------
var Main = require('../serverControllers/main.js')
module.exports = function(app){
app.get('/', Main.main)
app.get('/contact', Main.contact)
app.get('/algorithms', Main.algorithms)
app.get('/projects', Main.projects)
app.get('*', Main.other)
app.use(Main.other)
}
MAIN.JS FILE ----------------------
module.exports = {
main: function(req, res){
res.render('index')
},
contact: function(req, res){
res.render('contact')
},
algorithms: function(req, res){
res.render('algorithms')
},
projects: function(req, res){
res.render('projects')
},
other: function(req, res){
res.render('default')
},
}
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I have a node js and express server I run on localhost. Recently, while changing the server code from
app.get('/', (req, res) => {
res.sendFile(__dirname + '/public/index.html');
});
to
app.get('/', (req, res) => {
res.send('home');
});
The server still serves the "index.html" file and does not send the message "home". I also tried deleting all my "app.get()" and "app.post()" functions and it still runs as it was before the changes. I have double checked that I saved the file and restarted the server but even then, still does the same thing. The odd thing is that when changing anything else in the server code aside from my express code it runs as expected.
I tried searching my problem but no one is experiencing the same issues. Any help is appreciated, thanks.
All of your code is not listed, so this is an educated guess, but I would check to see if you are using express.static or another package to serve the directory your index.html file is in via app.use() before your routes. By default express.static will serve index.html if presented a root path ('/').
I am working to flesh out my portfolio site, and I am trying to add a link in a project block to a recent web project. I developed this side project in isolation from my portfolio site documents, but now that it's ready to show, I want to host it off of the same domain as my portfolio.
The problem I'm having is that the get request to the side project page won't show the index.ejs file. The format of the code at this moment represents just a simple test to get it to work at a basic level. This code works just fine on a local server, but when uploaded to run off my droplet, it shows the "Cannot GET /page" error.
Both my index.html and index.ejs files are hosted in a views folder. I have tried multiple variations of the filepath for the index.ejs file to no avail. Any help would be much appreciated!
server.js file
const express = require('express');
const app = express();
app.use(express.static('public'));
app.set('view engine', 'ejs');
app.get('/', function(req, res) {
res.sendFile(__dirname + '/index.html');
});
app.get('/page', function(req, res) {
res.render(__dirname + '/views/index.ejs');
});
const listener = app.listen(8080, function() {
console.log('Your app is listening on port ' + listener.address().port);
});
html file
<div class="project-tile">
<form action="/page" method="GET">
<button type="submit">Link</button>
</form>
</div>
I'm trying to follow Crowdbotics' Messenger bot tutorial, however. I did exactly as he mentioned but i am getting this.
My folder:
Okay so, first of all i run node index.js and get the following:
Right after that. We initialize our ngrok server by ngrok http 5000 and get the following:
But on EVERY http request i get the classic Cannot GET /.
On the hindsight, my index.js only contain:
const express = require("express");
const bodyParser = require("body-parser");
const app = express();
app.use(bodyParser.json());
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: true }));
app.listen(5000, () => console.log('Webhook server is listening, port 5000'));
I can't really point out what i am doing wrong, your help is truly appreciated.
Based on your express js code, I think you haven't define the routes to '/'
add this before the app.listen on the index.js file
app.get('/', (req, res) => res.send('Hello World!'))
Your index.js has started a server that listens and respond to the HTTP protocol - but it does not "serve files" the same way a web server such as Apache does.
As #Yana notes, you need to explicitly set a route to do something, such as send a text response back.
If you want the favicon.ico file to be sent when requested, then you need to setup a static route for that as part of your index.js code.
I'm using Express and create-react-app.
My React app is a ways along, and now I'm trying to serve it from an Express server.
// server/app.js
const express = require('express');
const path = require('path');
const app = express();
// Serve static assets
app.use(express.static(path.resolve(__dirname, '..', 'build')));
// serve main file
app.get('*', (req, res) => {
res.sendFile(path.resolve(__dirname, '..', 'build', 'index.html'));
});
module.exports = app;
(My build directory is populated when I do npm run build.
I view the page in Chrome, and what happens when loading the page at localhost:3000 is the Console prints Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected Token <, and in the Sources tab it shows that the content of my CSS and JS files are simply the same as index.html: as in this image.
This seems like a recognizable issue, so hopefully someone has seen this before. I'm sort of stumped on where to even begin, especially because I was actually serving the app from Express successfully at first. Then this started happening, then it stopped after some random switching of git branches and reverting and replaying changes, and then it started happening again. So I'm not even sure what makes it happen or not happen.
It appears that your app.use(express.static... call is failing, so instead all of the requests (including for the static assets) are being handled by the app.get('*', (req, res) => { part.
As you are intending to use this to serve a React app, I'd suggest taking inspiration from a boilerplate, "to see how it's done". I personally use NYTimes's kyt project and there's react-starter-kit too.
Try the following code changes which are detailed from the express documentation - serving static files in express:
Replace
app.use(express.static(path.resolve(__dirname, '..', 'build')));
With
app.use(express.static('build'))
Remove
app.get('*', (req, res) => {
res.sendFile(path.resolve(__dirname, '..', 'build', 'index.html'));
});
The problem was "homepage": ... in package.json.
When npm run build runs and there is a homepage URL in package.json that has a non-empty path (like a Github Pages URL like this, https://username.github.io/project_name, where "/project_name" is the path), it changes where it expects the files inside /build to be. The requests for my js and css were going to /project_name/static/... instead of /static/....
It even said in the log output of npm run build:
The project was built assuming it is hosted at /project_name/.
You can control this with the homepage field in your package.json.
On my localhost, it wasn't hosted at /project_name/, so the paths were off.
I try to connect backend (NodeJS, Express) with Frontend (Angular 2), but have a problem.
When I start two servers separately, both client-side and server-side work fine.
In my situation:
localhost:4200 - Angular
localhost:3000 - NodeJS, Express
When I render any static html file in my VIEWS folder, it works correctly, but when I change the content of the html file to Angular Index.html, that uses components, it doesn’t work. I mean, it works, but doesn't load my components.
I suppose that problem is in the configuration, and my index.html doesn't know how to find and load components, but I don’t understand exactly where a mistake might be.
When I try to start both servers at the same port, my frontend part stops working.
I use Angular-CLI, NodeJS, Express and EJS.
My server.js code is:
var express = require('express');
var path = require('path');
var bodyParser = require('body-parser');
var index = require('./routes/index');
var tasks = require('./routes/tasks');
var port = 3000;
var app = express();
app.set('views', path.join(__dirname, 'views'));
app.set('view enjine', 'ejs');
app.engine('html', require('ejs').renderFile);
app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, 'views')));
app.use(bodyParser.json());
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: false}));
app.use('/', index);
app.use('/api', tasks);
app.listen(port, function () {
console.log('Server started on port ' + port);
});
In the ROUTES folder my index.js code is:
var express = require('express');
var router = express.Router();
router.get('/', function(req, res, next) {
res.render('index.html');
});
module.exports = router;
My folders structure:
Picture of foldes
node_modules
routes
ruen-app
views
package.json
server.js
ruen-app is my client (Angular 2) folder.
So, my questions are:
How to connect these two parts?
Is it correct to start two servers at the same time - one for the frontend, another for the backend?
What is the best practice for MEAN applications to start from the scratch? I mean, what is the best way - two servers or one?
Spent 3 days, but found the solution.
On the stackoverflow:
Different ports for frontend and backend. How to make a request?
Angular-CLI proxy to backend doesn't work