创建一个全局npm包

Question

I found this article that talks about creating global packages: https://bretkikehara.wordpress.com/2013/05/02/nodejs-creating-your-first-global-module/

So I've got a bin value declared in my package.json like this:

"bin": {
    "my-server": "./bin/start-server.js"
  }

And in start-server.js I have a reference to ../server.js which is what I run to start my express server up. After I do an npm install -g in my project folder and run my-server it works just fine, however when I navigate out of the project folder and run my-server the server seems to start, but none of my stylesheets or client-side javascript includes are showing up.

In my server.js file I'm defining these paths like this:

app.set('views', path.join(__dirname, '/public'));
app.set('view engine', 'ejs');
app.use(express.static('public'));

Is there a different way I should be setting this up so that no matter where someone calls my-server from it has the correct path to the stylesheets?

Answer 1

I figured the answer to this out. In my server.js file I had to add __dirname to the express.static() expression. So this is what it looks like:

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

This makes it work just fine so I can call my-server from anywhere after doing npm install -g