I know similar questions have been asked before, but I've had a good look through & unfortunately none of the answers are helping me.
My CSS file is being ignored in certain circumstances.
So in my app.js file I have this code, defining my view engine setup
// view engine setup
app.set('views', path.join(__dirname, 'views'));
app.set('view engine', 'ejs');
app.use(logger('dev'));
app.use(express.json());
app.use(express.urlencoded({ extended: false }));
app.use(cookieParser());
app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, 'public')));
In my index.js file I have the following the code for UserList page
/* GET Userlist page. */
router.get('/userlist', function(req, res) {
var db = req.db; // (1) Extract the db object we passed to our HTTP request
var collection = db.get('usercollection'); // (2) Tell our app which collection we want to use
// (3) Find (query) results are returned to the docs variable
collection.find({},{},function(e,docs){
res.render('userlist', { "userlist" : docs }); // (4) Render userlist by passing returend results to said variable
});
});
Finally, my userlist.ejs page looks like this:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>User List</title>
<link rel='stylesheet' href='/stylesheets/style.css' type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
<h1>User List</h1>
<ul>
<%
var list = '';
for (i = 0; i < userlist.length; i++) {
list += '<li>' + userlist[i].username + '</li>';
}
return list;
%>
</ul>
</body>
</html>
But when I run my page the CSS file is not loaded. However if I exclude this code:
<%
var list = '';
for (i = 0; i < userlist.length; i++) {
list += '<li>' + userlist[i].username + '</li>';
}
return list;
%>
The CSS file is loaded and applied without issue. Can anyone tell me why this is please? Apologies for the newbie question, but I've been trying to figure this out for ages.
I should mention the 'h1' tags are ignored too. The only thing rendered is the list items.
Not sure if its relevant, but my app is connecting to MongoDB to return the user data.
Any assistance would be very much appreciated!
Thank you!
Make sure that your CSS file is either defined as an endpoint in your index.js file or make sure that public/stylesheets/style.css exists so it can be loaded through the app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, 'public'))); command.
Related
This is how i construct it:
var fs = require("fs");
var jsdom = require("jsdom");
var htmlSource = fs.readFileSync("./test.html", "utf8");
var doc = jsdom.jsdom(htmlSource, {
features: {
FetchExternalResources : ['script'],
ProcessExternalResources : ['script'],
MutationEvents : '2.0'
},
parsingMode: "auto",
created: function (error, window) {
console.log(window.b); // always undefined
}
});
jsdom.jQueryify(doc.defaultView, 'https://code.jquery.com/jquery-2.1.3.min.js', function() {
console.log( doc.defaultView.b ); // undefined with local jquery in html
});
the html:
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<script src="./js/lib/vendor/jquery.js"></script>
<!-- <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery.js"></script> -->
<script type="text/javascript">
var a = $("body"); // script crashes here
var b = "b";
</script>
</body>
</html>
As soon as i replace the jquery path in the html with a http source it works. The local path is perfectly relative to the working dir of the shell / actual node script. To be honest i don't even know why i need jQueryify, but without it the window never has jQuery and even with it, it still needs the http source inside the html document.
You're not telling jsdom where the base of your website lies. It has no idea how to resolve the (relative) path you give it (and tries to resolve from the default about:blank, which just doesn't work). This also the reason why it works with an absolute (http) URL, it doesn't need to know where to resolve from since it's absolute.
You'll need to provide the url option in your initialization to give it the base url (which should look like file:///path/to/your/file).
jQuerify just inserts a script tag with the path you give it - when you get the reference in the html working, you don't need it.
I found out. I'll mark Sebmasters answer as accepted because it solved one of two problems. The other cause was that I didn't properly wait for the load event, thus the code beyond the external scripts wasn't parsed yet.
What i needed to do was after the jsdom() call add a load listener to doc.defaultView.
The reason it worked when using jQuerify was simply because it created enough of a timeout for the embedded script to load.
I had the same issue when full relative path of the jquery library to the jQueryify function. and I solved this problem by providing the full path instead.
const jsdom = require('node-jsdom')
const jqueryPath = __dirname + '/node_modules/jquery/dist/jquery.js'
window = jsdom.jsdom().parentWindow
jsdom.jQueryify(window, jqueryPath, function() {
window.$('body').append('<div class="testing">Hello World, It works')
console.log(window.$('.testing').text())
})
I’m just getting to know Handlebars a bit better as a templating solution and have hit a problem that I don’t know how to solve.
I’ve added sections to my layout, one for the header and one for the footer for dynamically inserting scripts from my views. However, only the first section ever renders. The second one (regardless of order) is always omitted.
My layout is a simple HTML page:
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Test site</title>
{{{_sections.head}}}
</head>
<body>
<header>
//Logo and stuff here
</header>
{{{body}}}
<script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-2.0.2.min.js"></script>
{{{_sections.footer}}}
</body>
</html>
And in my layout file I have:
{{#section 'head'}}
<script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/handlebars.js/1.3.0/handlebars.min.js"></script>
{{/section}}
//basic HTML here
{{#section 'footer'}}
<script>
alert("this doesn’t fire if its second!");
</script>
{{/section}}
The header section appears on the page but the footer does not. The thing is, if I put the footer at the top of the page (i.e. before the {{section ‘head’}} that then renders but the head section no longer renders.
In my app.js I’m setting up the section functionality as follows:
var handlebars = require('express3-handlebars')
.create({
defaultLayout: 'main',
helpers: {
section: function (name, options) {
if (!this._sections) {
this._sections = {};
this._sections[name] = options.fn(this);
return null;
}
}
}
});
app.engine('handlebars', handlebars.engine);
app.set('view engine', 'handlebars');
Any ideas what I’m doing wrong here or how to add support for both sections?
Thanks
I think your sections are overwriting each other. Try changing your handlebars create to the following:
var handlebars = require('express3-handlebars')
.create({
defaultLayout: 'main',
helpers: {
section: function (name, options) {
if (!this._sections) {
this._sections = {};
}
this._sections[name] = options.fn(this);
return null;
}
}
});
I'm trying to follow the instructions to https://stackoverflow.com/a/18633827/2063561, but I still can't get my styles.css to load.
From app.js
app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, 'public')));
In my .ejs, I have tried both of these lines
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css/style.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/public/css/style.css" />
Neither loads the css. I've gone into the developer's console noticed the type is set to 'text/html' instead of 'text/css'.
My path looks like
.
./app.js
./public
/css
/style.css
Use this in your server.js file
app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/public'));
and add css like
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/style.css" />
dont need / before css like
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css/style.css" />
1.Create a new folder named 'public' if none exists.
2.Create a new folder named 'css' under the newly created 'public' folder
3.create your css file under the public/css path
4.On your html link css i.e
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css/style.css">
// note the href uses a slash(/) before and you do not need to include the 'public'
5.On your app.js include :
app.use(express.static('public'));
Boom.It works!!
The custom style sheets that we have are static pages in our local file system. In order for server to serve static files, we have to use,
app.use(express.static("public"));
where,
public is a folder we have to create inside our root directory and it must have other folders like css, images.. etc
The directory structure would look like :
Then in your html file, refer to the style.css as
<link type="text/css" href="css/styles.css" rel="stylesheet">
For NodeJS I would get the file name from the res.url, write the header for the file by getting the extension of the file with path.extname, create a read stream for the file, and pipe the response.
const http = require('http');
const fs = require('fs');
const path = require('path');
const port = process.env.PORT || 3000;
const server = http.createServer((req, res) => {
let filePath = path.join(
__dirname,
"public",
req.url === "/" ? "index.html" : req.url
);
let extName = path.extname(filePath);
let contentType = 'text/html';
switch (extName) {
case '.css':
contentType = 'text/css';
break;
case '.js':
contentType = 'text/javascript';
break;
case '.json':
contentType = 'application/json';
break;
case '.png':
contentType = 'image/png';
break;
case '.jpg':
contentType = 'image/jpg';
break;
}
console.log(`File path: ${filePath}`);
console.log(`Content-Type: ${contentType}`)
res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': contentType});
const readStream = fs.createReadStream(filePath);
readStream.pipe(res);
});
server.listen(port, (err) => {
if (err) {
console.log(`Error: ${err}`)
} else {
console.log(`Server listening at port ${port}...`);
}
});
Use in your main .js file:
app.use('/css',express.static(__dirname +'/css'));
use in you main .html file:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/style.css" />
The reason you getting an error because you are using a comma instead of a concat + after __dirname.
In your app or server.js file include this line:
app.use(express.static('public'));
In your index.ejs, following line will help you:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css/style.css" />
I hope this helps, it did for me!
IMHO answering this question with the use of ExpressJS is to give a superficial answer. I am going to answer the best I can with out the use of any frameworks or modules. The reason this question is often answerd with the use of a framework is becuase it takes away the requirment of understanding 'Hypertext-Transfer-Protocall'.
The first thing that should be pointed out is that this is more a problem surrounding "Hypertext-Transfer-Protocol" than it is Javascript. When request are made the url is sent, aswell as the content-type that is expected.
The second thing to understand is where request come from. Iitialy a person will request a HTML document, but depending on what is written inside the document, the document itsself might make requests of the server, such as: Images, stylesheets and more. This question refers to CSS so we will keep our focus there. In a tag that links a CSS file to an HTML file there are 3 properties. rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" and href="http://localhost/..." for this example we are going to focus on type and href. Type sends a request to the server that lets the server know it is requesting 'text/css', and 'href' is telling it where the request is being made too.
so with that pointed out we now know what information is being sent to the server now we can now seperate css request from html request on our serverside using a bit of javascript.
var http = require('http');
var url = require('url');
var fs = require('fs');
function onRequest(request, response){
if(request.headers.accept.split(',')[0] == 'text/css') {
console.log('TRUE');
fs.readFile('index.css', (err, data)=>{
response.writeHeader(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/css'});
response.write(data);
response.end();
});
}
else {
console.log('FALSE');
fs.readFile('index.html', function(err, data){
response.writeHead(200, {'Content_type': 'text/html'});
response.write(data);
response.end();
});
};
};
http.createServer(onRequest).listen(8888);
console.log('[SERVER] - Started!');
Here is a quick sample of one way I might seperate request. Now remember this is a quick example that would typically be split accross severfiles, some of which would have functions as dependancys to others, but for the sack of 'all in a nutshell' this is the best I could do. I tested it and it worked. Remember that index.css and index.html can be swapped with any html/css files you want.
I have used the following steps to resolve this problem
create new folder (static) and move all js and css file into this folder.
then add app.use('/static', express.static('static'))
add css like <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/static/style.css"/>
restart server to view impact after changes.
Use this in your server.js file
app.use(express.static('public'));
without the directory ( __dirname ) and then within your project folder create a new file and name it public then put all your static files inside it
Its simple if you are using express.static(__dirname + 'public') then don't forget to put a forward slash before public that is express.static(__dirname + '/public') or use express.static('public') its also going to work;
and don't change anything in CSS linking.
the order of registering routes is important . register 404 routes after static files.
correct order:
app.use("/admin", admin);
...
app.use(express.static(join(__dirname, "public")));
app.use((req, res) => {
res.status(404);
res.send("404");
});
otherwise everything which is not in routes , like css files etc.. , will become 404 .
The above responses half worked and I'm not why they didn't on my machine but I had to do the following for it work.
Created a directory at the root
/public/js/
Paste this into your server.js file with name matching the name of directory created above. Note adding /public as the first param
app.use('/public',express.static('public'));
Finally in the HTML page to which to import the javascript file into,
<script src="public/js/bundle.js"></script>
I was hoping anyone could give some input on this,
I'm creating a meteor app in which I would like to use bootstrap to creating the admin environment, but have the visitor facing side using custom css. When I add the bootstrap package to my app using meteor it's available on every page, is there a way to restrict the loading of bootstrap to routes that are in '/admin' ?
When you add bootstrap package it's not possible. You can, however, add bootstrap csses to public directory and then load them in a header subtemplate that will only be rendered when you're in the dashboard.
EDIT
But then how would you go about creating seperate head templates?
Easy:
<head>
...
{{> adminHeader}}
...
</head>
<template name="adminHeader">
{{#if adminPage}}
... // Put links to bootstrap here
{{/if}}
</template>
Template.adminHeader.adminPage = function() {
return Session.get('adminPage');
}
Meteor.router.add({
'/admin': function() {
Session.set('adminPage', true);
...
}
});
DISCLAIMER: I am unsure of a 'meteor way' to do this, so here is how I would do it with plain JS.
jQuery
$("link[href='bootstrap.css']").remove();
JS - Credit to javascriptkit
function removejscssfile(filename, filetype){
var targetelement=(filetype=="js")? "script" : (filetype=="css")? "link" : "none" //determine element type to create nodelist from
var targetattr=(filetype=="js")? "src" : (filetype=="css")? "href" : "none" //determine corresponding attribute to test for
var allsuspects=document.getElementsByTagName(targetelement)
for (var i=allsuspects.length; i>=0; i--){ //search backwards within nodelist for matching elements to remove
if (allsuspects[i] && allsuspects[i].getAttribute(targetattr)!=null && allsuspects[i].getAttribute(targetattr).indexOf(filename)!=-1)
allsuspects[i].parentNode.removeChild(allsuspects[i]) //remove element by calling parentNode.removeChild()
}
}
removejscssfile("bootstrap.css", "css")
However, doing that would complete remove it from the page. I am not sure whether meteor would then try to readd it when a user goes to another page. If that does not automatically get readded, then you have an issue of bootstrap not being included when someone goes from the admin section to the main site, which would break the look of the site.
The way I would get around that would be to disable and enable the stylesheets:
Meteor.autorun(function(){
if(Session.get('nobootstrap')){
$("link[href='bootstrap.css']").disabled = true;
}else{
$("link[href='bootstrap.css']").disabled = false;
}
});
There my be other bootstrap resources which may need to be removed, take a look at what your page is loading.
To use jQuery in the same way but for the javascript files, remember to change link to script and href to src
From my tests, Meteor does not automatically re-add the files once they have been removed so you would need to find some way of re-adding them dynamically if you want the same user to be able to go back and forth between the main site and the admin site. Or simply if the http referrer to the main site is from the admin, force reload the page and then the bootstrap resources will load and everything will look pretty.
P.s. make sure you get the href correct for the jQuery version
If somebody is interested in including any js/css files, I've written a helper for it:
if (Meteor.isClient) {
// dynamic js / css include helper from public folder
Handlebars.registerHelper("INCLUDE_FILES", function(files) {
if (files != undefined) {
var array = files.split(',');
array.forEach(function(entity){
var regex = /(?:\.([^.]+))?$/;
var extension = regex.exec(entity)[1];
if(extension == "js"){
$('head').append('<script src="' + entity + '" data-dynamicJsCss type="text/javascript" ></script>');
} else if (extension == "css"){
$('head').append('<link href="' + entity + '" data-dynamicJsCss type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" />');
};
});
}
});
Router.onStop(function(){
$("[data-dynamicJsCss]").remove();
});
}
Then simply use:
{{INCLUDE_FILES '/css/html5reset.css, /js/test.js'}}
in any of your loaded templates :)
I am trying to implement a 'Trace Window' pop up window when I enter a website, and then send messages to that window throughout the website in Order to diagnose some of the more awkward issues i have with the site.
The Problem is that the page changes, if The trace window already exists, all content is removed, before the new TraceText is added.
What I want is a Window that can be sent messages from any page inside the website.
I have a javascript Script debugger.js which I include as a script in every screen (shown below) I would then call the sendToTraceWindow() function to send a message to it thoughout the website. this is currently Mostly done in vbscript at present, due to the issues i am currenctly investigating.
I think it is because i am scripting in the debugger.js into every screen, which sets the traceWindow variable = null (see code below) but I do not know how to get around this!
Any help much appreciated.
Andrew
code examples:
debugger.js:
var traceWindow = null
function opentraceWindow()
{
traceWindow = window.open('traceWindow.asp','traceWindow','width=400,height=800')
}
function sendToTracewindow(sCaller, pMessage)
{
try
{
if (!traceWindow)
{
opentraceWindow()
}
if (!traceWindow.closed)
{
var currentTrace = traceWindow.document.getElementById('trace').value
var newTrace = sCaller + ":" + pMessage + "\n" + currentTrace
traceWindow.document.getElementById('trace').value = newTrace
}
}
catch(e)
{
var currentTrace = traceWindow.document.getElementById('trace').value
var newTrace = "error tracing:" + e.message + "\n" + currentTrace
traceWindow.document.getElementById('trace').value = newTrace
}
}
traceWindow.asp - just a textarea with id='trace':
<HTML>
<head>
<title>Debug Window</title>
</head>
<body>
<textarea id="trace" rows="50" cols="50"></textarea>
</body>
</HTML>
I don't think there is any way around the fact that your traceWindow variable will be reset on every page load, therefore rendering your handle to the existing window invalid. However, if you don't mind leveraging LocalStorage and some jQuery, I believe you can achieve the functionality you are looking for.
Change your trace window to this:
<html>
<head>
<title>Debug Window</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="YOUR_PATH_TO/jQuery.js" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="YOUR_PATH_TO/jStorage.js" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="YOUR_PATH_TO/jquery.json-2.2.js" />
<script type="text/javascript">
var traceOutput;
var traceLines = [];
var localStorageKey = "traceStorage";
$(function() {
// document.ready.
// Assign the trace textarea to the global handle.
traceOutput = $("#trace");
// load any cached trace lines from local storage
if($.jStorage.get(localStorageKey, null) != null) {
// fill the lines array
traceLines = $.jStorage.get(localStorageKey);
// populate the textarea
traceOutput.val(traceLines.join("\n"));
}
});
function AddToTrace(data) {
// append the new trace data to the textarea with a line break.
traceOutput.val(traceOutput.val() + "\n" + data);
// add the data to the lines array
traceLines[tracelines.length] = data;
// save to local storage
$.jStorage.set(localStorageKey, traceLines);
}
function ClearTrace() {
// empty the textarea
traceOutput.val("");
// clear local storage
$.jStorage.deleteKey(localStorageKey);
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<textarea id="trace" rows="50" cols="50"></textarea>
</body>
</html>
Then, in your pages where you want to trace data, you could modify your javascript like so:
var traceWindow = null;
function opentraceWindow() {
traceWindow = window.open('traceWindow.asp','traceWindow','width=400,height=800');
}
function sendToTracewindow(sCaller, pMessage) {
traceWindow.AddToTrace(sCaller + ":" + pMessage);
}
Every time a new page is loaded and the trace window is refreshed, the existing trace data is loaded from local storage and displayed in your textarea. This should achieve the functionality that you are looking for.
Please be kind on any errors - I'm winging this on a Monday morning!
Finding the jQuery library should be trivial. You can find the jStorage library here: http://www.jstorage.info/, and you can find jquery-json here: http://code.google.com/p/jquery-json/