Why absolute-path is not working in my project?-CodePudding

the hierarchy of my files looks something like:

BACKEND(COMPLETE)
->Routers
   ->userrouter.js
->login.html

I wanted the access of my login.html file in userrouter.js for which I copied the Path(absolute) of the login.html file.

But I am getting this error:

path must be absolute or specify root to res.sendFile()

My Code:

function loginUser(req,res)
{
res.sendFile('C:\Users\ASUS\Desktop\backend(complete)\login.html');
res.end();
}

CodePudding user response：

Try modifying C:\Users\ASUS\Desktop\backend(complete)\login.html to C:/\Users/\ASUS/\Desktop/\backend(complete)/\login.html

Try using path (path.join) npm package which Node provides out of the box to avoid this confusion irrespective of the OS.

CodePudding user response：

Try the Npm package path and use path.join(["yourpath", "here") for cross system compatibility. Note that every part between slashes needs to be its own entry in the array.