NestJs Microservice - Which location do I read files from?

Question

Wondering if anyone can help? I am trying to learn how to use NestJS microservices. I have managed to succesfully get a microservice with MQTT transport setup to receive events from an API. I am trying to use pug to merge the event information with a html template file. However pug cannot find the template file...

  this.logger.info(`Running from dir ${__dirname}`); // /usr/src/app/dist/apps/microservice
  const template = pug.compileFile('../templates/email.pug');

I have used a logger to display __dirname which refers to the dist directory. This has the single file main.js inside. How do I bundle and read a template pug file from nestjs microservice?

This post has a similar question, however it is for a nestjs app.

Answer 1

First we need to configure the express instance

  // main.ts
  const app = await NestFactory.create<NestExpressApplication>(
       AppModule,
  );
  app.setViewEngine('hbs');

Put templates folder in root with the neighborhood src folder

but you must find it not in dist folder because Typescript compiler dont copy non-typescript files to dist folder for that approach you can use copy-webpack-plugin but i just advise you change this url( ../templates/email.pug) so that to find folder located in root not find it in dist hope it will help you! if not please provide your file structure. https://docs.nestjs.com/techniques/mvc