Node JS / Socket.io : include JS lib in HTML

Question

That's surely a noob question, but the thing is : how can I easily include JS libs to the front-end part of a Node (with Socket.io) app ?

What I did in my HTML file :

<script src="libs/hammer.js"></script>

This HTML file is handled by Node :

app.get('/', function(request, response){  
  response.sendFile(__dirname + '/index.html');
});

So, as expected, the client can't find http://127.0.0.1:3000/libs/hammer.js (assuming I'm running locally on port 3000) : it returns a 404 on that request.

Should I handle those libs with node_modules ? or something else ? I'm pretty lost on that question.

Ben Fortune · Accepted Answer · 2014-11-14 10:03:51Z

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Assuming you're using express, you need to serve them with express.static.

Add this to your middleware stack:

app.use('/libs', express.static(__dirname + '/libs'));

answered Nov 14, 2014 at 10:03

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enguerranws Over a year ago

Thank you, I totally miss that point. I'll check Express doc about that. That's working fine right now :)

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