Noob node.js setup question

[bazfer]

Hello,

Working on initial setup, trying to display the Phaser logo using node.js and express for my local server.

So, I got it to display the black back ground, which means the route is correctly displaying the index.html. The phaser logo is, however, showing as missing even though the path is correct.

What am I missing? See screenshots.

Thanks.

[ldd]

after some googling:

app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/public'));

[bazfer]

Tried using express' static middleware and even though I got rid of the loading errors, the image is still not loading. However, it does display if I manually navigate to localhost:3000/phaser.png. Also, I did clear cache with no luck. Help?

 

[ldd]

I'm not entirely sure that phaser works 100% on node, without at least a fake canvas and jsdom...

again, after some googling here is a forum thread that might be interesting to you

 

[bazfer]

Found the solution: the provided code was missing 'game.load.start( )'.

Hint, hint Phaser Documentation Team.

[mattstyles]

1 hour ago, ldd said:

I'm not entirely sure that phaser works 100% on node, without at least a fake canvas and jsdom...

Phaser isn't running on node, at present express is only there as a static server.

[drhayes]

You shouldn't need to start the loader manually at all by calling "game.load.start()". Where did you put that that your code started working?

[bazfer]

11 minutes ago, drhayes said:

You shouldn't need to start the loader manually at all by calling "game.load.start()". Where did you put that that your code started working?

 function preload() {
                game.load.image('logo', '/phaser.png');
                game.load.start();
            }

 

[drhayes]

Yeah, quoting from the docs for Phaser.Loader.start:

Quote

Start loading the assets. Normally you don't need to call this yourself as the StateManager will do so

So that's weird. Can you use 2.6.2 instead of 2.5? See if there was a bug there, or something?

[samme]

@bazfer do you just want to run a local server?

You can just open the directory and run

http-server -c1

 

[bazfer]

9 hours ago, drhayes said:

Yeah, quoting from the docs for Phaser.Loader.start:

So that's weird. Can you use 2.6.2 instead of 2.5? See if there was a bug there, or something?

That did it. TY.

[bazfer]

5 hours ago, samme said:

@bazfer do you just want to run a local server?

You can just open the directory and run

http-server -c1

 

Got it working but appreciate the time to reply.