Nodejs Index.html Loads but Links & Scripts 404 - html

Question

I have a nodejs server running with the client side encapsulated in a client folder to make managing the folder structure for index.html easy. Then the links and scripts should load no problem.
client folder
/index.html
/style.css
/script.js
closer folder
/closure
/etc.
app.js
package.json
utility.js
In my app.js file I have a normal
app.get ('/', function (req,res) {
res.render('index.html');
});
and when I run and go to the local host port the file loads, but when I open the chrome console, I see that the index.html file failed to load any of the scripts with a 404 error not found. I notice that in a lot of express apps there seems to be a common pattern of something along the lines of
this app.set('views', __dirname + '/client');
this app.use(express.static(__dirname + "./client"));
this app.use('client', express.directory('client'));
but I don't see an explanation on the difference between app.use and app.set, nor a good explanation, the best the I could find was
app.set('views', __dirname + '/views'): Use ./views as the default
path for the client-side templates
from Alex Young's article but even this was a little sparse and dry for me, I'm hoping for a bit deeper of an explanation as to why the index file might be unable to load a link on the same directory level as it.
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" />
I look at this and I can't find the problem.

Answer 1

From the answer Express-js can't GET my static files, why? I'd suggest:
app.use("/client", express.static(__dirname + '/client'));
This is needed because your:
app.get ('/', function (req,res) {
res.render('index.html');
});
is only addressing what happens when someone goes to / and saying that index.html should be served. That alone doesn't serve anything else.

Answer 2

just run your server from root directory of your project.
that will fix the problem because you used relative addressing.