res.sendFile instead of res.send & change pi.wifi

[Pantgom]

Hi Tom, very good job. I have two questions to improve my project:

1. How could I change the app.js code to send a file (example index.html, resources.html) instead of send a text (res.send()). I have tried to put sendFile(path/index.html) but nothing happens.
2. I have tried to change "pi.wifi" in this same file to put something diferent in URL but fails again. If I put "anotherthing.wifi" must I change the name of the service???

Thanks in advance for your project and time.
Pablo

[TomHumphries]

Hi Pantgom,

For your first point, you could set a folder to be served. This means any files you request via the URL, or by default index.html, will be returned by the nodejs application.
To serve up files in a folder called public within your nodejs folder you could write:

const path = require('path')
app.use('/', express.static(path.join(__dirname, 'public')))

If you'd like to read more about that, the docs are here.

For your second point, I would have expected you'd only need to change the hostName variable in the nodejs code from pi.wifi to anotherthing.wifi. I'm not sure why that isn't working.

It has been a while since I worked on this guide, and I think the steps can be significantly simplified.
This project appears to achieve a similar goal with less configuration. When I find a bit of free time I'd like to revisit it to see if I can reduce the setup complexity and automate some of it with scripts!

Thanks for the feedback and best of luck with your project!