Express-js wildcard routing to cover everything under and including a path

Question

I\'m trying to have one route cover everything under /foo including /foo itself. I\'ve tried using /foo* which work for everything

Answer 1

It is not necessary to have two routes.

Simply add (/*)? at the end of your path string.

For example, app.get('/hello/world(/*)?' /* ... */)

Here is a fully working example, feel free to copy and paste this into a .js file to run with node, and play with it in a browser (or curl):

const app = require('express')()

// will be able to match all of the following
const test1 = 'http://localhost:3000/hello/world'
const test2 = 'http://localhost:3000/hello/world/'
const test3 = 'http://localhost:3000/hello/world/with/more/stuff'

// but fail at this one
const failTest = 'http://localhost:3000/foo/world'

app.get('/hello/world(/*)?', (req, res) => res.send(`
    This will match at example endpoints: 


    
${test1}
    
${test2}
    
${test3}

    

 Will NOT match at: 
${failTest}
`))

app.listen(3000, () => console.log('Check this out in a browser at http://localhost:3000/hello/world!'))