For some reason, this code keeps failing :
var http = require('http');
var url = require ('url');
var jade = require('jade');
var fs = require('fs');
http.createServer(function(req, res) {
// Request handlers
var path = url.parse(req.url, true).pathname;
var dot = path.lastIndexOf('.');
var extension = path.substr(dot + 1);
// Response handlers
switch(extension) {
case 'css' :
res.writeHeader(200, {"Content-Type": "text/css"});
fs.readFile(path.substr(1, dot - 1) + '.css', function (err, css) {
if(err) {
res.write(err, 'utf8')
};
res.write(css, 'utf8')
});
break;
case 'js' :
res.writeHeader(200, {"Content-Type": "text/javascript"});
fs.readFile(path.substr(1, dot - 1) + '.js', function (err, js) {
if(err) {
res.write(err, 'utf8')
};
res.write(js, 'utf8')
});
break;
default :
res.writeHeader(200, {"Content-Type": "text/html"});
jade.renderFile(path.substr(1, path.length) + '.jade', { title: 'test' }, function(err, html) {
if(err) {
res.write(err, 'utf8')
};
res.write(html, 'utf8');
});
break;
}
res.end();
}).listen(8080);
I don't get any errors, it's just that the responses seem to be empty. There is a header but no css or javascript file.
The way I link them in Jade is the following :
link(rel='stylesheet', href='/css/bootstrap.min.css')
link(rel='stylesheet', href='/css/style.css')
Thank you in advance !
You've called res.end()
too soon. Instead, put it after the last res.write()
in each of your fs.readFile
handlers.