external style sheet in pug template will not load

Question

I am unable to figure out how to get a style sheet to load in pug. I have tried every which way I can think of. and have searched extensively on Google. This seems like such a silly problem, but I have already wasted so much time trying to figure it out.

My file structure is as follows

/main
    server.js
    package.json
    /views
        layout.pug
        main.pug
    /public
        style.css

In all of the following examples I have tried to reference the file in these ways:

• href="../public/style.css"
• href="./public/style.css"
• href="/public/style.css"
• href="public/style.css"

and

• href="/style.css"

I have tried:

---

1) link element in main.pug

    //- daytime page
    extends layout.pug
    block styles
        link(rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../public/style.css")

---

2) In the layout.pug using include

//- layout
doctype
html
  head
    meta(charset='UTF-8')
    block title
      title country
    block styles
  body
    style.
      include ../public/day.css

AS WELL AS inside the header

---

3) In layout.pug using

//- layout
doctype
html
  head
    meta(charset='UTF-8')
    block title
      title country
    block styles
      link(rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../public/style.css")
body

---

Inspect Source

When I inspect the source of the pug files that contain the pug element. the browser shows that the link has been rendered correctly inside the parent.

css does load when I write it directly in the pug file like so:

style.
    selector{
        rule
        rule
}

---

I can not keep my css inline, and I can not use html directly in the pug file (assignment rules). Why are my stylesheets not loading?

---

Specs:

• Firefox 56.0
• Ubuntu 16.04
• pug 2.0
• express 4.16.2

Answer 1

Check if you have set public folder as static inside of server.js

app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, 'public')));

then in pug files add

head
block styles
  link(rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/style.css")