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@astrojs/node
This adapter allows Astro to deploy your SSR site to Node targets.
Why @astrojs/node
If you're using Astro as a static site builder—its behavior out of the box—you don't need an adapter.
If you wish to use server-side rendering (SSR), Astro requires an adapter that matches your deployment runtime.
Node.js is a JavaScript runtime for server-side code. @astrojs/node can be used either in standalone mode or as middleware for other http servers, such as Express.
Installation
Add the Node adapter to enable SSR in your Astro project with the following astro add
command. This will install the adapter and make the appropriate changes to your astro.config.mjs
file in one step.
# Using NPM
npx astro add node
# Using Yarn
yarn astro add node
# Using PNPM
pnpm astro add node
Add dependencies manually
If you prefer to install the adapter manually instead, complete the following two steps:
Install the Node adapter to your project’s dependencies using your preferred package manager. If you’re using npm or aren’t sure, run this in the terminal:
npm install @astrojs/node
Add two new lines to your
astro.config.mjs
project configuration file.// astro.config.mjs import { defineConfig } from 'astro/config'; import node from '@astrojs/node'; export default defineConfig({ output: 'server', adapter: node({ mode: 'standalone', }), });
Configuration
@astrojs/node can be configured by passing options into the adapter function. The following options are available:
Mode
Controls whether the adapter builds to middleware
or standalone
mode.
middleware
mode allows the built output to be used as middleware for another Node.js server, like Express.js or Fastify.import { defineConfig } from 'astro/config'; import node from '@astrojs/node'; export default defineConfig({ output: 'server', adapter: node({ mode: 'middleware', }), });
standalone
mode builds to server that automatically starts with the entry module is run. This allows you to more easily deploy your build to a host without any additional code.
Usage
First, performing a build. Depending on which mode
selected (see above) follow the appropriate steps below:
Middleware
The server entrypoint is built to ./dist/server/entry.mjs
by default. This module exports a handler
function that can be used with any framework that supports the Node request
and response
objects.
For example, with Express:
import express from 'express';
import { handler as ssrHandler } from './dist/server/entry.mjs';
const app = express();
// Change this based on your astro.config.mjs, `base` option.
// They should match. The default value is "/".
const base = '/';
app.use(base, express.static('dist/client/'));
app.use(ssrHandler);
app.listen(8080);
Or, with Fastify (>4):
import Fastify from 'fastify';
import fastifyMiddie from '@fastify/middie';
import fastifyStatic from '@fastify/static';
import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';
import { handler as ssrHandler } from './dist/server/entry.mjs';
const app = Fastify({ logger: true });
await app
.register(fastifyStatic, {
root: fileURLToPath(new URL('./dist/client', import.meta.url)),
})
.register(fastifyMiddie);
app.use(ssrHandler);
app.listen({ port: 8080 });
Additionally, you can also pass in an object to be accessed with Astro.locals
or in Astro middleware:
import express from 'express';
import { handler as ssrHandler } from './dist/server/entry.mjs';
const app = express();
app.use(express.static('dist/client/'));
app.use((req, res, next) => {
const locals = {
title: 'New title',
};
ssrHandler(req, res, next, locals);
});
app.listen(8080);
Note that middleware mode does not do file serving. You'll need to configure your HTTP framework to do that for you. By default the client assets are written to ./dist/client/
.
Standalone
In standalone mode a server starts when the server entrypoint is run. By default it is built to ./dist/server/entry.mjs
. You can run it with:
node ./dist/server/entry.mjs
For standalone mode the server handles file servering in addition to the page and API routes.
Custom host and port
You can override the host and port the standalone server runs on by passing them as environment variables at runtime:
HOST=0.0.0.0 PORT=4321 node ./dist/server/entry.mjs
HTTPS
By default the standalone server uses HTTP. This works well if you have a proxy server in front of it that does HTTPS. If you need the standalone server to run HTTPS itself you need to provide your SSL key and certificate.
You can pass the path to your key and certification via the environment variables SERVER_CERT_PATH
and SERVER_KEY_PATH
. This is how you might pass them in bash:
SERVER_KEY_PATH=./private/key.pem SERVER_CERT_PATH=./private/cert.pem node ./dist/server/entry.mjs
Runtime environment variables
If an .env
file containing environment variables is present when the build process is run, these values will be hard-coded in the output, just as when generating a static website.
During the build, the runtime variables must be absent from the .env
file, and you must provide Astro with every environment variable to expect at run-time: VARIABLE_1=placeholder astro build
. This signals to Astro that the actual value will be available when the built application is run. The placeholder value will be ignored by the build process, and Astro will use the value provided at run-time.
In the case of multiple run-time variables, store them in a seperate file (e.g. .env.runtime
) from .env
. Start the build with the following command:
export $(cat .env.runtime) && astro build
Troubleshooting
SyntaxError: Named export 'compile' not found
You may see this when running the entry script if it was built with npm or Yarn. This is a known issue that may be fixed in a future release. As a workaround, add "path-to-regexp"
to the noExternal
array:
// astro.config.mjs
import { defineConfig } from 'astro/config';
import node from '@astrojs/node';
export default defineConfig({
output: 'server',
adapter: node(),
vite: {
ssr: {
noExternal: ['path-to-regexp'],
},
},
});
For more help, check out the #support
channel on Discord. Our friendly Support Squad members are here to help!
You can also check our Astro Integration Documentation for more on integrations.
Contributing
This package is maintained by Astro's Core team. You're welcome to submit an issue or PR!
Changelog
See CHANGELOG.md for a history of changes to this integration.