URL Rewriting with ExpressJS

Question

I would like to rewrite my URLs on my ExpressJS website. I\'ve used this plugin, https://github.com/joehewitt/express-rewrite, but it doesn\'t work...

However, I mig

Answer 1

You could rewrite the URL before you get to the handler you want to use.

app.use(function(req, res, next) {
   if (req.url === '/toto') {
     req.url = '/heytoto';
   }
   next();
});

app.get('/heytoto', ...);

I've used a similar method to do URL rewrites with regular expressions.