Any way to serve static html files from express without the extension?

Question

I would like to serve an html file without specifying it\'s extension. Is there any way I can do this without defining a route? For instance instead of

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Answer 1

While Robert's answer is more elegant there is another way to do this. I am adding this answer just for the sake of completeness. To serve static files without extension you can create a folder with the name of the route you want to serve against and then create an index.html file in it.

Taking my own example if I wanted to serve hello.html at /hello. I would create a directory called hello and put an index.html file in it. Now when '/hello' is called express will automatically serve this file without the extension.

Kind of obvious as this is supported by all web frameworks but I missed it back then.