express.static :: namespacing static folders with URL's

[Phil Cockfield]

CONTEXT:

With [express.static] doing something like this:

app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/public'));

Will allow the [public] folder to server static assets from the URL
starting at /

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QUESTION:

But say I have another static resources folder I want to open up,
which is organized somewhere else within the project (for instance,
within a module within the node_modules folder).

Say I wanted to have resources within this other static folder come
off URL's starting at:

/foo/

How would I do that? When I use [express.static] multiple times, I
see that those folders all start at the root of the URL.

I guess I could namespace by putting everything within a named folder
within the actual folder I'm passing to [express.static], but is there
a more elegant way to do this - like pass a URL argument to app.use?

Thanks guys!

[Josh Chaney]

Try a softlink. 

If you had:

app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/public'));

in /public you would do:

ln -s /lib/some_module/assets foo

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[TJ Holowaychuk]

app.use('/foo', express.static(__dirname + '/public'));

GET /foo/javascripts/jquery.js

etc

Connect has this concept of "mounting" built in, where the middleware is routed based on it, however does not see the prefix given, so static() treats this request as "/javascripts/jquery.js"

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On Saturday, July 2, 2011 at 9:33 PM, Phil Cockfield wrote:

[Phil Cockfield]

Beautiful!  Figured there's be a way to do this nicely.

Your API design on Express is deeply elegant Tj.

[Phil Cockfield]

Beautiful!  Figured there'd be a way to do this nicely.

Your API design on Express is deeply elegant Tj.

On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 8:50 AM, TJ Holowaychuk <t...@vision-media.ca> wrote:

[TJ Holowaychuk]

thanks man! appreciate it. It will be getting a bit better for 3.x :D need to start working on that soon

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[alessio_alex]

Thanks TJ, didn't know this could be done.

Perhaps it's better to put this info on the official guide too.

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[Dale Tan]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think should be able to fork express, then add stuff to the "docs" folder, and then send a pull request to tj with your updates.

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[TJ Holowaychuk]

yup. i typically update the site each release but anything in the markdown will be in there. we almost need a section devoted to tips/tricks etc, but I guess the examples serve for that

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