how to use document.getElementById() in Nodejs

Question

i\'m trying to get elements by id from an html file in a js file using nodejs. I\'m getting the error \'document id not defined\' because node doesn\'t provide a document ob

Answer 1

Use JSDOM npm package:

jsdom is a pure-JavaScript implementation of many web standards, notably the WHATWG DOM and HTML Standards, for use with Node.js. In general, the goal of the project is to emulate enough of a subset of a web browser to be useful for testing and scraping real-world web applications. https://github.com/jsdom/jsdom