Serve client side JavaScript in Express.js app

Question

I have recently started to build my first Node.js app using Express. I have used the latest Express generator to create a skeleton app and I have successfully create several different layouts using Jade and CSS - this all works fine.

However, I cannot seem to get my client side JS to work. In my public folder I have a separate front end JS file and the only thing it contains is an alert (just for testing purposes). I can successfully navigate to the file in the browser and I am not receiving any console errors, however the alert never fires - What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

In order to solve this problem I had to change the link reference to a script reference in my HTML. I also had to ensure I served static files in Express.

http://expressjs.com/starter/static-files.html