You can use the path module to join the path of the directory in which helper1.js lives to the relative path of foobar.json. This will give you the absolute path to foobar.json. var fs = require(‘fs’); var path = require(‘path’); var jsonPath = path.join(__dirname, ‘..’, ‘config’, ‘dev’, ‘foobar.json’); var jsonString = fs.readFileSync(jsonPath, ‘utf8’); This should … Read more
If user is logged in, passport.js will create user object in req for every request in express.js, which you can check for existence in any middleware: if (req.user) { // logged in } else { // not logged in } You can create simple express.js middleware for that, that will check if user is logged … Read more
Follow the example to avoid the out-of-order middleware hell that express makes it so easy to enter. Straight from the docs. Note how yours does not match this exactly. var app = express(); app.use(require(‘serve-static’)(__dirname + ‘/../../public’)); app.use(require(‘cookie-parser’)()); app.use(require(‘body-parser’).urlencoded({ extended: true })); app.use(require(‘express-session’)({ secret: ‘keyboard cat’, resave: true, saveUninitialized: true })); app.use(passport.initialize()); app.use(passport.session()); Docs cookieParser session … Read more
I think you will have to have 2 routes. If you look at line 331 of the connect router the * in a path is replaced with .+ so will match 1 or more characters. https://github.com/senchalabs/connect/blob/master/lib/middleware/router.js If you have 2 routes that perform the same action you can do the following to keep it DRY. … Read more
This article does an excellent job for what you want to do. http://tostring.it/2014/06/23/advanced-logging-with-nodejs/ For your specific code you probably need something like this: var logger = new winston.Logger({ transports: [ new winston.transports.File({ level: ‘info’, filename: ‘./logs/all-logs.log’, handleExceptions: true, json: true, maxsize: 5242880, //5MB maxFiles: 5, colorize: false }), new winston.transports.Console({ level: ‘debug’, handleExceptions: true, json: … Read more
ExpressJS Issue: Most of the middleware is removed from express 4. check out: http://www.github.com/senchalabs/connect#middleware For multipart middleware like busboy, busboy-connect, formidable, flow, parted is needed. This example works using connect-busboy middleware. create /img and /public folders. Use the folder structure: \server.js \img\”where stuff is uploaded to” \public\index.html SERVER.JS var express = require(‘express’); //Express Web Server … Read more
You have to retrieve it from the HOST header. var host = req.get(‘host’); It is optional with HTTP 1.0, but required by 1.1. And, the app can always impose a requirement of its own. If this is for supporting cross-origin requests, you would instead use the Origin header. var origin = req.get(‘origin’); Note that some … Read more
Seems you too are confused with the same thing as I was, the reason I stumbled upon this question. I think we associate logging with manual logging as we would do in Java with log4j (if you know java) where we instantiate a Logger and say log ‘this’. Then I dug in morgan code, turns … Read more
With EJS you can have several tags: <% code %> … which is code that is evaluated but not printed out. <%= code %> … which is code that is evaluated and printed out (escaped). <%- code %> … which is code that is evaluated and printed out (not escaped). Since you want to print … Read more
It turns out, you can override the console functions at the top of the app.js file, and have it take effect in every other module. I got mixed results because one of my modules is forked as a child_process. Once I copied the line to the top of that file as well, all works. For … Read more