How to pass variable from app.js to routes/index.js?

Question

I\'m using shrinkroute https://npmjs.org/package/shrinkroute to make links in nodejs. I get error 500 ReferenceError: shrinkr is not defined

How to pass shrinkroute

Answer 1

One solution would be to store shrinkr in your app object using app.set:

// app.js
...
app.set('shrinkr', shrinkr);
...

In routes/index.js, you can access it through the req.app or res.app objects:

exports.showOrListUsers = function(req, res, next) {
  var shrinkr = req.app.get('shrinkr');
  ...
};