Error: Failed to lookup view in Express

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Adding to @mihai’s answer:

If you are in Windows, then just concatenating __dirname' + '../public' will result in wrong directory name (For example: c:\dev\app\module../public).

Instead use path, which will work irrespective of the OS:

var path = require ('path');
app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname + '../public')));

path.join will normalize the path separator character and will return correct path value.

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