Basic Node and Express - Serve an HTML File

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Challenge: Basic Node and Express - Serve an HTML File

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To send File as HTML you need to use res.render function,
first send the views folder
app.send("views", pathToViews);

then

res.render("filename");

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Use res.sendFile and pass it __dirname concatenated with the folder/file path to the HTML file in the views folder.

res.sendFile(__dirname + '/someFolder/someFile.html')

Or use path.join

const path = require('path')
res.sendFile(path.join(__dirname, someFolder, someFile.html))
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