What's the better approach: serving static files with Express or nginx?

Question

I\'m building a Node.js applications and I\'m using nginx as a reverse proxy. My application has some static files I need to serve and a Socket.io server.

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Answer 1

The Express documentation explicitly recommends using a reverse proxy where possible. To quote from this article:

Nginx can do a much better job of handling static files and can prevent requests for non-dynamic content from clogging our node processes.

There's an awful lot of articles discussing the subject which go into greater detail, but I would definitely heed the recommendations made by the Express developers.