express-static

Question 1

What does express.static() return?

Answer 1

Middleware function, serve static

Question 2

What is the local __dirname variable in a Node.js module?

Answer 2

The directory name of the current module. This is the same as the path.dirname() of the __filename.

It starts with / so it is absolute file path since it starts at the root of the file system

Question 3

What does the join() method of Node’s path module do?

Answer 3

The path.join() method joins all given path segments together using the platform-specific separator as a delimiter, then normalizes the resulting path.