Npm: Getting cannot get / error after publishing my package

Asked Mar 27 '18 at 11:48

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I am having a npm package which serves as a local host. What I want is after user use npm install -g to install it, they can use the command easydx to run the local host and web pages can be served as in a static server.

During development, it works fine with npm start and the pages can successfully open at localhost:3666. But when I publish the package and tested it using npm install -g to install it. After easydx successfully fires the server, localhost:3666 get the cannot get / error.

My package contains the line:

  "bin": {
    "easydx": "index.js"
  },

and my index.js file begins with

#! /usr/bin/env node

So what is going wrong here?

In my index.js file:

I have used:

app.use(express.static('dist'));

to serve the static web files. And have used express routes for the web service.

edited Mar 27 '18 at 15:50

RobC

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show your server.js file – krishank Tripathi Mar 27 '18 at 11:59
@krishankTripathi I don't have one. I only have the index.js which is the entry point. Is that the one you are asking for? – Lance Shi Mar 27 '18 at 12:02
then where you are defining the router to get the response on the particular link i.e local host:3666 – krishank Tripathi Mar 27 '18 at 12:03
@krishankTripathi in index.js file – Lance Shi Mar 27 '18 at 12:04
could you show me how you call the request function – krishank Tripathi Mar 27 '18 at 12:05
@krishankTripathi Updated – Lance Shi Mar 27 '18 at 12:11
Let us [continue this discussion in chat](https://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/167637/discussion-between-krishank-tripathi-and-lance-shi). – krishank Tripathi Mar 27 '18 at 12:26
Is dist folder your root folder and contains all the files if not and you are creating a virtual path prefix then you can check this https://expressjs.com/en/starter/static-files.html – krishank Tripathi Mar 27 '18 at 15:16
here i have found a question that might be helpful if you have path issue in your js script that i think it has so please see this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10434001/static-files-with-express-js – krishank Tripathi Mar 27 '18 at 15:23
Possible duplicate of [Cannot GET / Nodejs Error](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21317981/cannot-get-nodejs-error) – krishank Tripathi Mar 27 '18 at 15:29
@krishankTripathi Thanks a lot for all the comments and research. But the difference between my case and those issues are the project runs successfully with node index.js – Lance Shi Mar 27 '18 at 23:21
@krishankTripathi But it doesn't work after npm link – Lance Shi Mar 27 '18 at 23:22

Npm: Getting cannot get / error after publishing my package

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