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Jack Roboski
Courses Plus Student 4,999 PointsRangeError: Invalid status cod: undefined
Hello everyone.
I was following along and everything was going great until the final video in this course. I decided to undercut my problem solving for the sake of time (copy pasting from html2jade to Visual Code and changing the placeholders was taking a while) and copy exactly what Mr. Chalkley was showing on this video to see the final results. The first snag was that the copy-pasting was causing format issues with my tabs suddenly generating 4 spaces in Visual Code (but only sometimes?). After fixing that, I had an issue with a RangeError as my title suggests.
I have no idea how to fix it, the Docs are brief on what it is and I cannot find any values that are outside of a valid "range". Like I said, all I changed from previous videos to this one was exactly what was shown in the video, word for word, but now my project cannot do anything at all. Was there something not mentioned in the video that had to be changed in order for the syntax in these videos to function?
2 Answers
Jessica Beech
11,405 PointsHey! I had this problem and it drove me insane! I posted a similar response in another thread here.
Basically the reason you're probably getting a RangeError is because pug rendering errors don't seem to create sensible status codes and the Error handling function in app.js assumes you have a normal status code when producing the error page!
So when the error occurs, you don't get the nicely designed error page, nothing renders, and you have no idea what you did wrong – so frustrating!
Change the error handling function in app.js to the following:
app.use(( err, req, res, next ) => {
res.locals.error = err;
if (err.status >= 100 && err.status < 600)
res.status(err.status);
else
res.status(500);
res.render('error');
});
This should mean you'll get an error page load, with the stack trace that actually tells you where the problem is! Mine said it was an indentation thing in my card.pug file - similar to you and not unsuprising given the hazards of html2jade.
Hope this helps you and anyone else who gets to the end of this series and has a similar issue!
Nothing more annoying than getting stumped at the final hurdle.
Gabbie Metheny
33,778 PointsBoth this solution and Abraham's got rid of the range error in my console, but adding this conditional to the error handler gave me sensible error messages again! Thanks, Jessica!
Abraham Juliot
47,353 PointsI was seeing a similar error. This may help:
change app.use('/static', express.static('public')) to app.use('/static', express.static(__dirname+'/public'))
Jack Roboski
Courses Plus Student 4,999 PointsJack Roboski
Courses Plus Student 4,999 PointsI downloaded the finished product, and, after updating the package on the provided completed challenge, it runs perfectly fine. So I am trying to comb through for differences. I am still at a loss for what possibly could be causing this RangeError. I added in the "/static/js/app.js" file and this removed the RangeError from the home URL (apparently RangeError also means you're calling a non-existent script?), but if you click any buttons, the server runs into the RangeError again. I have looked at my routes, my pug files, both my app.js files, and the index.js file while comparing them side by side to the completed challenge files. I cannot find anything invalid between the two. I hope I'm the only person who managed to do this because, until the very end, this was a great course. In hindsight, I should have backed up my original project before blindly following word for word just to save time. I assumed I could not hit an unintelligible error going word for word haha
My only guess so far is that there is something that seems correct, but is not, and is causing a seemingly irrelevant error (RangeError). Considering the first error being that I did not add the app.js file to the correct directory, this could mean that there is something else not quite named correctly that I'm referencing. I really wish the error made sense so I could find it.