Advanced Node.js Development

Setting up the server.js file for the public directory

In our server file, we want to set up this server to serve up the public folder. Now, in this case, the server.js file is not in the root of the project, which means we have to go up a directory from server to node-chat-app. Then, we have to go into the public folder. This will make it a little hard to set up the Express middleware. What we'll do is take a look at a built-in Node module that makes it really easy to convert paths.

Now, in order to show you what I'm talking about, let's go ahead and use two console.log calls:

console.log();console.log();

The first console.log call will show us how we used to do it, and the second one will show us the better way to do it.

Inside the first ...