I followed this procedure with assistance from T.J to resolve my issue
To address the problem, I made changes to my process. The steps I took are as follows:
- I switched from exporting an array through a JS file to saving a JSON file instead.
- Using the
.get()API, I read the file withfs.readFileSync(), parsed it withJSON.parse(), and returned the array in JSON format.
Here is the code snippet:
Arrays/bookFiles.json:
{
"name":"bookFiles",
"array":[["CSSNotesForProfessionals.pdf","/mnt/Data/Books/CSSNotesForProfessionals.pdf","pdf","application/pdf"],["JS for Beginners.pdf","/mnt/Data/Books/JS for Beginners.pdf","pdf","application/pdf"],["alqamoosulwaheed.pdf","/mnt/Data/Books/alqamoosulwaheed.pdf","pdf","application/pdf"]]
}
routes/book.mjs:
import express from "express";
import * as fs from 'fs'
export const book = express.Router();
book.get("/",(req,res)=>{
const data = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync('/home/abdurehman/LocalNas/backend/Arrays/bookFiles.json','utf-8'))
res.send(data.array)
}
)
Previous Problem:
Below is the original array that gets modified by another script later on
export const bookFiles=[]
I imported this into my main Express JS + Node JS route for an API. However, there was an issue where the script retained the initial values of the array and provided those to the API fetch. Instead, I wanted it to re-import or re-scan the array before sending it to API fetch.
Router File: routes/book.mjs:
import express from "express";
export const book = express.Router();
import { bookFiles } from "../Arrays/bookFiles.mjs";
book.get("/",(req,res)=>{
const data=bookFiles
res.send(data)
}
)
This is my Main File /app.mjs:
import express from 'express';
import { zip } from './routes/zip.mjs';
import { office } from './routes/office.mjs';
import { compressed } from './routes/compressed.mjs';
import { image } from './routes/images.mjs';
import { book } from './routes/book.mjs';
import { videos } from './routes/videos.mjs';
var app = express()
app.use("/zipFiles",zip)
app.use("/officeFiles",office)
app.use("/videoFiles",videos)
app.use("/compressedFiles",compressed)
app.use("/bookFiles",book)
app.use("/imageFiles",image)
app.listen("5000")
I also attempted to readFileSync from .js file and then parse it into Array, but it didn't work due to JSON.parse() limitations. Thank you for your understanding.
As requested, here's the code responsible for changing the text of Arrays/*:
/fmgr.mjs:
import * as fs from 'fs';
import {fileTypeFromFile} from 'file-type';
import * as path from 'path';
import * as url from 'url';
// The rest of the code remains the same...
...