How to go up using __dirname in the folder hierarchy

Question

My app structure is:

 /app      /css      /js      ..  /script     /server.js 

I'm trying to use __dirname to point to /app folder when using

app.use(express.static( __dirname + '/app')); 

I dont realy know what to search for in the web, please help.

Answer 1

You can use path module for that.

The path module provides utilities for working with file and directory paths.

const path = require('path');  app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, '..', 'app'))); 

Answer 2

if you're in server.js then you mean

app.use(express.static( __dirname + '/../app'));