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Asked: 2026-06-07T12:56:52+00:00

This is driving me insane. I have a node app with express. It serves

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This is driving me insane.

I have a node app with express. It serves up a file called index.ejs.

All I wanna do is import a javascript file on this page (something like jquery). But it won’t pull it up, and I’m going nuts (as this should be simple).

On the server side I have this code in a file called app.js:

var express = require('express');
var app = express.createServer();
var hostName = (process.env.VCAP_APP_HOST || 'localhost');
app.listen( process.env.VCAP_APP_PORT ||  8000);
app.use(express.static(__dirname +  '/public/javascript/'));


//Create the view
app.set('views', __dirname + '/views');
app.set('view engine', 'ejs');
app.set('view options', { layout: false });
app.get('/', function(req, res){
    res.render('index.ejs', {
              item : "document.write('Hello World');"
    });
});

In the ejs file, I have this:

<html>
        <script>
        <%= item %>
    </script>

<a href="">Link</a>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/javascript/jquery.js"></script>
</html>

I can see in the console that the script is not loaded (it shows an error). But for the life of me I can’t figure out why.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You need to add a static server to serve the other files you have under ‘/’. Currently your server is just responding to requests sent to ‘/’ (and views).

    Add this line to your express setup before app.get:

    // DOCUMENT_ROOT should point to the directory that contains your javascript directory.
app.use(express.static(DOCUMENT_ROOT));
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