Node.js parent path from server.js

Question

My is there c:\nodejs\www\project\bin\server.js

My views are in c:\nodejs\www\project\views

Then in my server.js I have:

.set('views', __dirname + '/views')

But the generated path is: c:\nodejs\www\project\bin\views

How to get the parent of bin folder?

I use Express and Ejs.

Regards

see this : [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7083045/fs-how-do-i-locate-a-parent-folder][1] [1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7083045/fs-how-do-i-locate-a-parent-folder — bestpostmaster, Jun 21 '13 at 14:39
I don't understand how to adapt that code for me. I'm a Node.js beginner. — Syl, Jun 21 '13 at 18:52

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 24 '14 at 09:21

there are two ways of doing this, I can think :

Or

you can use path.join from the path module

var path = require("path"), .set(path.join(__dirname, '..', 'views'));

these will get your back one parent in the directory structure to find the file.

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