Newbie - File paths in Express

Background of the problemPlanning to deploy my website built with React to production mode with npm run build command!​ProblemFirst time trying to deploy my app to production with npm run build! but!__dirname in backend\index.ts is referring to the build folder inside of the backend folder instead of the build folder outside of src.Here's what the console.log(__dirname) looks likeprojects\spotify\src\backend\build should be: projects\spotify\build This is what my folders structure look like​Here's my backend/index.ts:...... ...... const PORT = process.env.PORT || 5000; //PROBLEM: console.log(__dirname); //projects\spotify\src\backend\build //should be: \\projects\spotify\build app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, "../../build"))); app.get("*", function (req, res) { res.sendFile(path.join(__dirname, "../../build")); }); app.listen(PORT); ​How should this be fixed?

Submitted September 22, 2020 at 04:29PM by badboyzpwns