From 47a1173a80042883c4d1933910af49349b8d8775 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Isaac Grynsztein <IsaacMGrynsztein@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 03:57:15 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Updated app.js to remove error when not run from backend
 directory

---
 backend/app.js | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/backend/app.js b/backend/app.js
index be0c3ce6..382ab064 100644
--- a/backend/app.js
+++ b/backend/app.js
@@ -1625,8 +1625,12 @@ app.use(function(req, res, next) {
         return next();
     }
 
-    fs.createReadStream('./public/index.html').pipe(res);
+    let index_path = path.join(__dirname, 'public', 'index.html');
+
+    fs.createReadStream(index_path).pipe(res);
 
 });
 
-app.use(express.static('./public'));
+let public_dir = path.join(__dirname, 'public');
+
+app.use(express.static(public_dir));