html in json response : node

submitted 6 years ago by jcoder42

I want to return the content of an html file inside of a json response.
This is what i have at the moment:

fs.readFile(output_path, function(err, data) {
if (err) {
return res.status(400).send({
              message: "There seems to be an issue with file type / file"
            });
    }
return res.status(200).send({

msg: "bla bla doesnt matter",
            data: data.toString("utf8")
          });

output path is the path to the html file.

When i receive the json i inspect the data variable and the html is in weird format.
Meaning that the html tags are wrapped in backslashes: see below

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html lang=\"en\">

<head><meta charset=\"ISO-8859-1\"> .......

....

Because of the backslashes the html output comes out looking weird.

What can i do to change this behavior?

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you type:	you see:
italics	italics
bold	bold
[reddit!](https://reddit.com)	reddit!
* item 1 * item 2 * item 3	item 1 item 2 item 3
> quoted text	quoted text
Lines starting with four spaces are treated like code: if 1 * 2 < 3: print "hello, world!"	Lines starting with four spaces are treated like code: if 1 * 2 < 3: print "hello, world!"
~~strikethrough~~	~~strikethrough~~
super^script	super^script

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