My directory set up is like this :
app.js
vews
home.html
css
style.css
My home file is like this :
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/style.css" />
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
My app is like this :
var io = require('socket.io'),
url = require('url'),
sys = require('sys'),
express = require('express'),
http=require('http');
var app = express();
var server = http.createServer(app);
var socket = io.listen(server);
app.engine('.html', require('ejs').__express);
app.set('views', __dirname + '/views');
app.set('view engine', 'html');
app.get('/', function(req, res){
res.render('home');
});
app.listen(4000);
sys.puts('server running ' + 'now ' + Date.now());
The problem is when i run the app, css file can not be loaded.
Since .css files are static files you have to serve them to the clients. However, you do not serve static files as a express middleware. Add the following middleware to your express app and move the css folder under the public directory (you should create a public directory)
app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, 'public')));
So your final directory structure should look like this
app.js
views
home.html
public
css
style.css
And do not forget to require path module
var path = require('path')
In one of my apps, I have these relevant files in this file structure:
/
index.js
/public
/stylesheets
main.css
/views
/partials
header.ejs
The index.js includes app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, '/public')));
Note the /public.
The header.ejs partial includes <link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' href='/stylesheets/main.css' />
Note the lack of public, it’s implied by the middleware.
In your example, your current directory for static files doesn’t match where you are keeping static files.
Try this:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css/style.css" />
This might solve the problem.
Related
I'm making an app with NodeJS and Express, and when I start the server I get the following error:
Refused to apply style from 'http://localhost:3000/style.css' because its MIME type
('text/html') is not a supported stylesheet MIME type, and strict MIME checking is enabled.
Here's my directory tree:
app:
|-node-modules
|-index.js
|-package.json
|-package-lock.json
|-views
|-index.html
|-public
|-stylesheets
|-style.css
Here's my index.js:
const express = require("express");
const app = express();
const path = require("path");
app.use("/static", express.static(__dirname + "/public"));
app.get("/", (req, res) => {
res.sendFile(path.join(__dirname + "/views/index.html"));
});
app.listen(process.env.port || 3000);
console.log("Server Is Active At Port " + (process.env.port || 3000));
And here's my index.html and style.css:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Express App</title>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/public/stylesheets/style.css">
</head>
<body>
<h1>Test</h1>
</body>
</html>
body{
text-align: center;
}
Please note that I'm just testing to see if the site works, and this isn't the full code for the site.
You're not showing us the full picture - how are your styles being loaded? Presumably with a <link> tag you opted not to show us. Anyhow, the express.static middleware should take care of setting the correct mime type. You probably aren't providing the correct path to the stylesheet.
Your style tag in your html should look something like this:
<!-- note the "/static" part at the beginning of the url -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/static/stylesheets/style.css" />
Try writing
app.use('/public' , express.static(path.join(__dirname, 'public'))); instead of app.use("/static", express.static(__dirname + "/public"));
After that in your html while linking to the css file you can write
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/public/stylesheets/style.css">
Hope this solves the issue
I think this will work. Define path like this:
const staticfiledir = path.join(__dirname,'../public')
Setup for static directories to serve
app.use(express.static(staticfiledir))
Even though i have created static public folder in app.js
when i navigate to "http://localhost:3000/calenders/add" and i don't get any styles which is in public folder. because express has added "calenders/add/" to the public folder URL.
So it looks like "http://localhost:3000/calenders/add/content_inside_public".
But the correct URL should be "http://localhost:3000/content_inside_public"
Navigate to app index works fine and load all the styles.
Of course i can set static path in app.js like this
app.use('/calenders/add',express.static(__dirname + '/public'));
but it's not practical if i have many routes in my app.
I believe this is happening because i have a separated folder called partials inside the view directory to store headers,footers and navigation bar, so that i can include them any where in the app easily without writing same html code again and again.
This is how i included them in calender/add.ejs
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<% include ../partials/head.ejs %>
<body>
<!-- Side Navbar -->
<% include ../partials/side_nav.ejs %>
<div class="page">
<!-- navbar-->
<% include ../partials/header.ejs %>
<% include ../partials/footer.ejs %>
</div>
</body>
</html>
This is how i have access the folders and style-sheets inside the public directory in headers.ejs and footers.ejs
<script src="vendor/jquery/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="vendor/popper.js/umd/popper.min.js"></script>
<script src="vendor/bootstrap/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
<script src="js/grasp_mobile_progress_circle-1.0.0.min.js"></script>
<script src="vendor/jquery.cookie/jquery.cookie.js"></script>
<script src="vendor/chart.js/Chart.min.js"></script>
This is my project structure.
/public
/css
/js
/vendor
.......
/routes
calendars.js
control_panel.js
index.js
/views
/calendars
add.ejs
/control_panel
index.ejs
calendars.ejs
/partials
header.ejs
footer.ejs
......
index.ejs
Here is the app.js
app.set('views', path.join(__dirname, 'views'));
app.set('view engine', 'ejs');
app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/public'));
app.use('/', index);
app.use('/users', users);
app.use('/control_panel', control_panel);
app.use('/calenders', calenders);
Calendars.js
router.get('/add', function(req, res, next) {
res.render('calenders/add', { title: 'Express' });
});
control_panel.js
router.get('/', function(req, res, next) {
res.render('control_panel/index', { title: 'Express' });
});
This has nothing to do with express,
this is because in /calenders/add, src of <script src="vendor/jquery/jquery.min.js"></script> will resolve to http://localhost:3000/calenders/add/vendor/jquery/jquery.min.js,
because vendor/jquery/jquery.min.js is a relative path.
what you need is to change the url to this:
<script src="/vendor/jquery/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="/vendor/popper.js/umd/popper.min.js"></script>
<script src="/vendor/bootstrap/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
<script src="/js/grasp_mobile_progress_circle-1.0.0.min.js"></script>
<script src="/vendor/jquery.cookie/jquery.cookie.js"></script>
<script src="/vendor/chart.js/Chart.min.js"></script>
Ive been looking a all kind of posts and just can't understand my mistake. Whatever I do, my css file is just not being served.Does anyone know why?
test/server/app.js:
var express = require('express');
var path = require('path');
var app = express();
app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, 'public')));
app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, 'browser')));
var PORT = process.env.PORT || 1337;
app.listen(PORT, function() {
console.log('Server is listening!');
});
test/browser/index.html:
<head>
<base href="/" />
<title>Test</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="public/style.css" />
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/angular.js/1.6.1/angular.min.js"></script>
<script src="app.js"></script>
<script src="js/app.controller.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<p>hello world</p>
</body>
</html>
My css file is in test/public/style.css
Your app code can be found in test/server/, which means that path.join(__dirname, 'public') will yield (the absolute path value for) test/server/public, which is not where your CSS file is located.
Instead, you'd want to use this:
path.join(__dirname, '..', 'public')`
Which would make it point to test/public/.
However, this only partly solved the problem, because you're also telling Express that test/public/ is the root directory of the static resources, meaning that your stylesheet's URL is /style.css, not public/style.css.
If you want to keep the public prefix (which you probably do), you need to use this:
app.use('/public', express.static(path.join(__dirname, '..', 'public')));
And in your HTML, be sure to use absolute paths:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/public/style.css" />
My ejs engine set up is app.js is like below:
// this parse html file as ejs file
app.engine('.html', require('ejs').__express);
app.set('view engine', 'html');
app.set('views', __dirname + '/view');
My directory is like this:
view (folder)
home.html
head.html
app.js
Home.html is like this:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<title>home</title>
<% include head %>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
and head.html is like this:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/main.css">
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery-1.5.js"></script>
the problem is the file head.html will not be parsed if the extension was html. Error says it expect ejs file. So there is a problem with include function?
As Elie Gnrd is suggesting, you use .ejs files directly by changing the view engine configuration of Express.
If that isn't an option, and you want/need to keep using .html as an extension for your templates, you have to be explicit in the include:
<% include head.html %>
You can use .ejs files directly by using app.set('view engine', 'ejs'); and renaming index.html to index.ejs.
Here is an example:
http://robdodson.me/blog/2012/05/31/how-to-use-ejs-in-express/
arrr ;)
you did not mention what app - so I assume Express >=3
solution : forget the dot and __express in
app.engine('.html', require('ejs').__express);
It should read :
app.engine('html', require('ejs').renderFile);
change html file with ejs
-view
--home.ejs
--head.ejs
-app.js
set app view engine like
app.set('view engine', 'ejs');
make index.ejs for main file and include home.ejs and head.ejs in index.ejs
<%- include('head')%>;
<%- include('home')%>;
and render it app.js like
app.get('/', (req, res) => {
res.render('index');
});
cmiiw..
I too had this problem and modified this file of my app:
myapp/node_modules/ejs/lib/ejs.js
The function is:
function resolveInclude(name, filename) {
var path = join(dirname(filename), name);
var ext = extname(name);
if (!ext) path += '.ejs';
return path;
}
You can change the default extension or as in my case I changed the function to a more direct:
function resolveInclude(name, filename) {
return join(dirname(filename), name) + '.html';
}
They can modify the function as they wish.
I hope that is helpful.
I'm trying to make a simple server with node, express and ejs for the template. I've gotten the server to point to the page, load it, and am even able to generate other bits of code with the include statement. However for some reason the style sheet will not load.
app.js
var express = require('express'),
app = express(),
http = require('http'),
server = http.createServer(app),
fs = require('fs');
var PORT = 8080;
app.set('view engine', 'ejs');
app.get('/', function(req, res){
res.render('board.ejs', {
title: "anything I want",
taco: "hello world",
something: "foo bar",
layout: false
});
});
app.listen(PORT);
console.log("Server working");
The ejs file is in a directory views/board.ejs
<html>
<head>
<title><%= title %></title>
<link rel='stylesheet' href='../styles/style.css' />
</head>
<body >
<h1> <%= taco %> </h1>
<p> <%= something %> </p>
</body>
</html>
and style.css is in a styles/style.css directory relative to app.js
p {
color:red;
}
I've tried every path that I can conceive of for the href of the link including relative to where my localhost points relative to app.js relative to board.ejs and even just style.css but none seem to work. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Declare a static directory:
app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/public'));
<link rel='stylesheet' href='/style.css' />
in app.js:
you must first declare static directory
app.use("/styles",express.static(__dirname + "/styles"));
in ejs file :
<link rel='stylesheet' href='/styles/style.css' />
Recently I was working with this same thing and my CSS was not working. Finally, I get the trick. My static path was like below,
const app = express();
const publicDirectoryPath = path.join(__dirname, '../src/public');
const staticDirectory = express.static(publicDirectoryPath);
app.use(staticDirectory);
and my folder structure was like
The trick is that express access only defined static path, in my case CSS was outside of public so it was not working and suddenly I move CSS folder inside my public folder and that's it. Works beautifully.
Above example was for only one static path. For multiple static path you can use the code in the below
const app = express();
const publicDirectoryPath = path.join(__dirname, '../src/public');
const cssDirectoryPath = path.join(__dirname, '../src/css');
const staticDirectory = express.static(publicDirectoryPath);
const cssDirectory = express.static(cssDirectoryPath);
app.use(staticDirectory);
app.use('/css/',cssDirectory);
And my generic HTML file is
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Index</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="../css/styles.css">
</head>
<body>
<h1>this is index page</h1>
</body>
</html>
To set the entry point for your application dependancies like css, img etc add below line into your server.js (or which ever being used).
app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/'))
This tells to get css files from current directory where server.js is present. Accordingly you can define relative path of css in html file.
With Express 4, you can easily set this up by using the following within your app.js file.
app.use('/static', express.static(path.join(__dirname,'pub')));
Place this early in your file, after you created your require constants, and declared your express app.
Its declaring a static directory, with the help of the path object, allowing you to have a place where all of your front-end resources are available. It's also giving it a virtual directory name (/static) that can be used on the front of the site, instead of the physical name you see within your project (/pub).
In your template you can do something like this in your head
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/static/css_bundle.css"/>