Ch. 5 - complications due to use of sendFile() (the recommended express method)

[murshedchoudhury]

As a result of moving over to sendFile(), I had to add __dirname to the path :. sendFile(__dirname+'...'), to get through the initial few pages of the chapter, otherwise I kept getting the "express deprecated res.sendfile ..." warning.

This was fine until pg. 62, where you separate out the sendfile endpoints. Here, the only workable solution I've found is to add a new object to the static.js file :. var path = require('path') and use its join method to cobble together a usable path for sendFile() :. res.sendFile(path.join(__dirname,'../relative/path/to/post.html').

The method mentioned in the book works fine, but since it is deprecated, I thought I'd try and learn the newer method.

[murshedchoudhury]

Update: decided to look up the api on the express site (http://expressjs.com/4x/api.html#res.sendFile) and found a got a simpler solution.
:.
var filename = post.html
options = { root: './layouts/', headers {'x-timestamp': Date.now(), 'x-sent': true }}

res.sendFile(filename, options, function(err) { ... })

No need for importing a new object - require('path') - or making a convoluted join - res.sendFile(path.join(...)) - much simpler.