glitch-assets-buffer v1.1.2

Assets.js via Buffer

A fork of assets-lib that uses Buffers instead of redirects to display images at local addresses.

This utility is made for glitch.com projects, and shouldn't be used anywhere else

In a nutshell

The standard Assets.js automatically redirects your web browser to the actual asset URL when it requested the asset for a website/etc However, with assets-buffer, the asset is sent over in the body of the response.

What this means

Navigating to /assets/foobar.png on the old system redirects you to https://cdn.hyperdev.com/us-east-1%3A1a0f89c8-26bf-4073-baed-2b409695e959%2Ffoobar.png Whereas navigating to /assets/foobar.png displays the same image without redirecting you.

Getting Started

Install:

Local) Just copy and paste the contents of assets-buffer.js into your Glitch project. Express is required to be installed for assets-buffer.js to work

NPM) Add this line to your package.json:

{
  "dependencies": {
    "glitch-assets-buffer": "^1.1.2"
  }
}

Example usage:

Then reference that file as follows:

// LOCAL
var assets = require("./assets-buffer.js");

// NPM
var assets = require("glitch-assets-buffer");

var express = require("express");

var app = express();
app.use("/assets", assets);