For the server-side portion, you just need to use a static-files module.  As to 
file encoding, I would recommend having all your text files in UTF-8 without a 
Byte Order Marker (BOM), many utils blow up without them, and many editors in 
windows by default inject them for new files, so that's something to be aware 
of.
SERVER: See connect.static() for an 
example.http://www.senchalabs.org/connect/static.html
CLIENT: As to loading your files, jQuery's .get() method, which should give you 
what you are wanting...http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.get/


> Subject: Re: [nodejs] Module for loading JSON or other text file in browser 
> or node
> From: [email protected]
> Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 16:25:28 -0500
> To: [email protected]
> 
> On Jul 28, 2013, at 22:41, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
> > I want them to be dynamically loaded, from their original locations, as 
> > needed.
> 
> I guess what I want is:
> 
> loadFile(file, function(err, contents) {
>   if (err) {
>     console.log(err);
>   } else {
>     //do something with contents
>   }
> });
> 
> where the browser implementation of loadFile (which I've written) deals with 
> all the XMLHttpRequest mechanics, and the server implementation could wrap 
> fs.readFile. So far I'm unsure how to deal with character encoding.
> 
> I wanted to avoid the problem that I've seen many times on this group 
> already, namely I didn't want to write and publish and announce such a module 
> only to have people refer to me to the existing module that did exactly what 
> I wanted.
> 
> I'm just surprised nobody has published such a module yet. Nobody else needs 
> to load text files into their server- and client-side JavaScript libraries?

                                          

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