Since Express 4.0, there’s a dedicated sendStatus function: res.sendStatus(404); If you’re using an earlier version of Express, use the status function instead. res.status(404).send(‘Not found’);
After having a bit of a play myself, you should use: console.log(req.originalUrl)
Ryan, thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I fleshed out your answer (2nd paragraph) a little bit with some code and it works. In this scenario these code snippets are put in my express app: // set up plain http server var http = express(); // set up a route to redirect http … Read more
Express API reference covers this case. See status and send. In short, you just have to call the status method before calling json or send: res.status(500).send({ error: “boo:(” });
In many environments (e.g. Heroku), and as a convention, you can set the environment variable PORT to tell your web server what port to listen on. So process.env.PORT || 3000 means: whatever is in the environment variable PORT, or 3000 if there’s nothing there. So you pass that to app.listen, or to app.set(‘port’, …), and … Read more
Per the Express (Version 4+) docs, you can use: res.status(400); res.send(‘None shall pass’); http://expressjs.com/4x/api.html#res.status <=3.8 res.statusCode = 401; res.send(‘None shall pass’);
The order in which you use middleware in Express matters: middleware declared earlier will get called first, and if it can handle a request, any middleware declared later will not get called. If express.static is handling the request, you need to move your middleware up: // need cookieParser middleware before we can do anything with … Read more
UPDATE: (5 years later) Note: If you decide to use Kappa Architecture (Event Sourcing + CQRS), then you do not need updated date at all. Since your data is an immutable, append-only event log, you only ever need event created date. Similar to the Lambda Architecture, described below. Then your application state is a projection … Read more
If you NPM those modules you can serve them using static redirect. First install the packages: npm install jquery npm install bootstrap Then on the server.js: var express = require(‘express’); var app = express(); // prepare server app.use(‘/api’, api); // redirect API calls app.use(“https://stackoverflow.com/”, express.static(__dirname + ‘/www’)); // redirect root app.use(‘/js’, express.static(__dirname + ‘/node_modules/bootstrap/dist/js’)); // … Read more
middleware I’m halfway through separating the concept of middleware in a new project. Middleware allows you to define a stack of actions that you should flow through. Express servers themselves are a stack of middlewares. // express var app = express(); // middleware var stack = middleware(); Then you can add layers to the middleware … Read more