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From: "Felix E. Klee" <felix.k...@inka.de>
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2012 16:46:37 +0200
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Subject: Serving static files, but not from public directory?
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What is a good module to serve some static (JavaScript) files (including
caching and compression)?

Desired mapping of files to URLs:

  scripts/*.js -> http://example.com/scripts/*.js (only for development)
  xyz.js       -> http://example.com/xyz.js
  app.js       -> not served (of course)
  package.json -> not served (of course)
  ...

That's it. There is no public directory in my app.

What I already looked at:

* node-static: only allows specification of a public directory which is
  mapped to the root of <http://example.com/>. As you can see above,
  this is not what I want.

* connect: will not do caching anymore ("connect.staticCache() is
  deprecated and will be removed in 3.0 use varnish or similar reverse
  proxy caches")

By the way, I plan to deploy to Nodejitsu. Does anyone know whether they
do automatic caching?