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Courses Plus Student 4,911 PointsI can not bind the value ? Help me
I dont know what wrong in my code , i can not bind the value
var fs = require("fs");
function mergeValues(values, content) {
//Cycle over the keys
for(let key in values) {
//Replace all {{key}} with the value from the values object
content = content.replace(`{{${key}}}`, values[key]);
}
//return merged content
return content;
}
function view(templateName, values, response) {
//Read from the template file
var fileContents = fs.readFileSync('././view/' + templateName + '.html', {encoding: "utf8"});
//Insert values in to the content
fileContents = mergeValues(values, fileContents);
//Write out the contents to the response
response.write(fileContents);
}
module.exports.view = view;
1 Answer
Alexander La Bianca
15,959 PointsI think the issue is with this line:
var fileContents = fs.readFileSync('././view/' + templateName + '.html', {encoding: "utf8"});
I think your path to the html file is off. Are you actually getting the correct fileContents from this?
Duy Khanh
Courses Plus Student 4,911 PointsDuy Khanh
Courses Plus Student 4,911 Pointsi make a folder name module inclue render.js and the view in another so i put ././ is not right ?
Alexander La Bianca
15,959 PointsAlexander La Bianca
15,959 PointsWhat is your directory structure? If you want to step out of your current folder you need to do ../ and ./ means in the current folder