Express.js - any way to display a file/dir listing?

Question

With Express.js is there a way to display a file/dir listing like apache does when you access the URL of a directory which doesn\'t have a index file - so it displays a list

Answer 1

This will do the work for you: (new version of express requires separate middleware). E.g. you put your files under folder 'files' and you want the url to be '/public'

var express = require('express');
var serveIndex = require('serve-index');
var app = express();

app.use('/public', serveIndex('files')); // shows you the file list
app.use('/public', express.static('files')); // serve the actual files