Proper way to remove middleware from the Express stack?

Question

Is there a canonical way to remove middleware added with app.use from the stack? It seems that it should be possible to just modify the app.stack array directl

Answer 1

No way of removing a middleware as far as I know. however, you can assign a boolean flag to 'deactivate' a middleware at anytime you want.

let middlewareA_isActivate = true;
// Your middleware code
function(req, res, next) {
   if (!middlewareA_isActivate) next();
   // .........
}
// Deactivate middleware
middlewareA_isActivate = false;

EDIT :
After reading through ExpressJs (4.x) code, I notice that you can access the middlewares stack via app._router.stack, manipulation goes from there I guess. Still, I think this 'trick' might not be able to work in future Express
P/s: Not tested how Express behaves when manipulate the middlewares stack directly though