fs.readFileSync doesn't recognize file-CodePudding

The fs.readFileSync function does not recognize the HTML-file, even tho it is localted in the same folder. The error says: Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'node.html'

const http = require('http');
const PORT = 3000;
const fs = require('fs')

const server = http.createServer((req, res) => {
    if (req.url === '/') {
        res.writeHead(200, {'content-type': 'text/html'});
        const homePageHTML = fs.readFileSync('node.html');
        console.log(homePageHTML)
        res.end()
    } else {
        res.writeHead(404, {'content-type': 'text/html'});
        res.write('<h1>Sorry, you were misled!</h1>')
        res.end()
    }
})

server.listen(PORT);

CodePudding user response：

I solved It by changing the path to ${__dirname}\node.html. Somehow needs the actual path. Which doesn't seems to be the case in the tutorial I'm watching.

CodePudding user response：

Sometimes trying a basic npm reinstall can help:

npm install

I also noticed another problem when trying to reproduce your problem. You didn't specify and encoding type in your fs.ReadFileSync method, so the console.log outputted a buffer rather than a string. changing your homePageHTML string line into this should work

const homePageHTML = fs.readFileSync('node.html', "utf8");

Let me know if this works or if you have any other problems.