Serving static files with restify

Question

I am learning to use Node.js. Currently, I have a folder structure that looks like the following:

index.html
server.js
client
  index.html
  subs
    index.h         


        

Answer 1

According to my current restify version (v5.2.0)

the serveStatic has been moved into plugins, so the code would be like this

server.get(
  /\/(.*)?.*/,
  restify.plugins.serveStatic({
    directory: './static',
  })
)

Syntax above will serve your static files on folder static. So you can get the static file like http://yoursite.com/awesome-photo.jpg

For some reason if you want to serve the static files under specific path like this http://yoursite.com/assets/awesome-photo.jpg for example.

The code should be refactored into this

server.get(
  /\/assets\/(.*)?.*/,
  restify.plugins.serveStatic({
    directory: `${app_root}/static`,
    appendRequestPath: false
  })
)

The option appendRequestPath: false above means we dont include assets path into the file name