express

Setting up two different static directories in node.js Express framework

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You can also set the path that static files will be served to the web from by specifying an additional (first) parameter to use() like so: app.use(“/public”, express.static(__dirname + “/public”)); app.use(“/public2”, express.static(__dirname + “/public2”)); That way you get two different directories on the web that mirror your local directories, not one url path that fails … Read more

Best way to perform a full text search in MongoDB and Mongoose

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You can add a text index to your Mongoose schema definition that lets you use the $text operator in your find queries to search all fields included in the text index. To create an index to support text search on, say, name and profile.something: var schema = new Schema({ name: String, email: String, profile: { … Read more

Redirecting to previous page after authentication in node.js using passport.js

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In your ensureAuthenticated method save the return url in the session like this: … req.session.returnTo = req.originalUrl; res.redirect(‘/login’); … Then you can update your passport.authenticate route to something like: app.get(‘/auth/google/return’, passport.authenticate(‘google’), function(req, res) { res.redirect(req.session.returnTo || “https://stackoverflow.com/”); delete req.session.returnTo; });

How to send a custom http status message in node / express?

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None of the existing answers accomplish what the OP originally asked for, which is to override the default Reason-Phrase (the text appearing immediately after the status code) sent by Express. What you want is res.statusMessage. This is not part of Express, it’s a property of the underlying http.Response object in Node.js 0.11+. You can use … Read more

req.query and req.param in ExpressJS

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req.query will return a JS object after the query string is parsed. /user?name=tom&age=55 – req.query would yield {name:”tom”, age: “55”} req.params will return parameters in the matched route. If your route is /user/:id and you make a request to /user/5 – req.params would yield {id: “5”} req.param is a function that peels parameters out of … Read more

how to properly close node-express server?

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app.listen() returns http.Server. You should invoke close() on that instance and not on app instance. Ex. app.get( ‘/auth/github/callback’, passport.authenticate(‘github’, { failureRedirect: ‘/login’ }), function(req, res) { res.redirect(“https://stackoverflow.com/”); setTimeout(function () { server.close(); // ^^^^^^^^^^^ }, 3000) } ); var server = app.listen(‘http://localhost:5000/’); // ^^^^^^^^^^ You can inspect sources: /node_modules/express/lib/application.js

How to find the size of the file in Node.js?

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To get a file’s size in megabytes: var fs = require(“fs”); // Load the filesystem module var stats = fs.statSync(“myfile.txt”) var fileSizeInBytes = stats.size; // Convert the file size to megabytes (optional) var fileSizeInMegabytes = fileSizeInBytes / (1024*1024); or in bytes: function getFilesizeInBytes(filename) { var stats = fs.statSync(filename); var fileSizeInBytes = stats.size; return fileSizeInBytes; }