Preferred way to serve static pages?

[Voltron]

Is there a preferred Express.js way to serve static pages? I intended
to load the pages depending on the users locale manually as such:

fs.readFile(__dirname + '/static/en/index.html', 'utf8', function(err,
text){
response.send(text);
});

How do others take care of this issue?

Thanks

[Oleg Efimov]

Use Nginx or other reverse proxy to serve static files.

среда, 18 апреля 2012 г., 15:16:36 UTC+4 пользователь Voltron написал:

[Paul Vencill]

Is there a reason to not simply put them in the /public folder and let the express.static middleware handle it?

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[Voltron]

The reason is that I want to server the files based on the users
locale, taking the example:
__dirname + '/static/en/index.html'. This will server the english
version of the file. I thought there was some middleware for it

[Wes Freeman]

I agree.

app.configure('development', function(){

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

});

[Voltron]

? I am confused. I already am using the static middleware to serve CSS
and JS files. I want to serve the static HTML pages depending on a
route, so what exactly are ypu agreeing to Wes?

Anyway, I think I have found something, I just make calls like this in
the individual controllers

res.sendfile(__dirname + '/index.html');
res.sendfile(__dirname + '/de/index.html');
res.sendfile(__dirname + '/fr/foo.html');

On Apr 18, 4:15 pm, Wes Freeman <freeman....@gmail.com> wrote:
> I agree.
>
> app.configure('development', function(){
>   app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/public'));
>
> });
>

[tjholowaychuk]

res.sendfile() is equivalent to static(), but for dynamic use so yup there's nothing wrong with that

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