hyper-express-route-path

This is a tiny module that uses path-match to determine the exact path extracted from a route.

This was built to work with hyper-express and I use it to help manage static file serving.

Ah! Oh! What does it do?

Say you have the route /assets/* to server your assets, and you try to access the file /assets/vids/1.mp4, it calculates the route path to be /vids/1.mp4 so you can look for that file in your static directory.

Why this is important is because static files will effectively be served off many routes and you will need a way to map to them.

Usage

You can use this as a middleware or within the route.

const HyperExpress = require('hyper-express');
const webserver = new HyperExpress.Server();

// require module
const heRoutePath = require('hyper-express-route-path');

// to use it as a middleware
webserver.use(heRoutePath.middleWare);

// Create GET route to serve 'Hello World'
webserver.get('/*', async (request, response) => {

	// Now every request object will have a new property; routePath
	response.send(request.routePath);
	// => '/vids/1.mp4' when accessing /vids/1.mp4

	//You can also use it within a route as follows
	let filePath = heRoutePath.routePath(request);
	// Of course we probably don't need this as we have already used it as a middleware ;)
	response.send(filePath);
	// => '/vids/1.mp4' when accessing /vids/1.mp4

});

// Activate webserver by calling .listen(port, callback);
webserver
	.listen(80)
	.then((socket) => console.log('Webserver started on port 80'))
	.catch((error) => console.log('Failed to start webserver on port 80'));