1.0.0 • Published 4 years ago

static-spa v1.0.0

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static-spa

This is middleware for serving static files of single-page-applications. I mainly designed it for express, but it might also work for similar libraries.

Basic use:

const path = require('path');
const express = require('express');
const staticSpa = require('static-spa');

const app = express();

app.use(staticSpa(path.join(__dirname, 'public')));

app.listen(8000);

Unlike express.static, staticSpa will try to find the nearest index.html and serve that instead if the originally requested file doesn't exist.

It can also take an object for additional options.

app.use(staticSpa({
  dir: path.join(__dirname, 'public'))),
  index: 'foobar.html',
});

Options

keytypedefaultdescription
dir (required)stringThe directory to serve from.
indexstring"index.html"The name of the index file(s).
templateTemplateOptions{}Use to configure templating. Omit to disable templating.

TemplateOptions

keytypedefaultdescription
indexstringSet to options.indexUse this to distinguish template files from regular index files, for example "index.htmlt"
matchstring | RegExp/\$([\w.|]*)\$/g (example: $variable|filter$ or $variable|filter1|filter2$)Determines what to replace.
splitstring | RegExp"|"Character to use for filters.
dataobject{}The data to use when templating files.
fitlers{ [name: string]: (value: any) => any }defaultFiltersThe list of filters to use in the template.

Example template with default settings:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <base href="$base$/">
  <meta charset="UTF-8">
  <title>$title$</title>
  <link rel="styleshee" type="text/css" href="style.css">
</head>
<body>
  <h1>$title$</h1>
  <div id="main"></div>
  <script type="text/javascript" src="main.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

You can use clean to insert safe HTML.

  <title>$title|clean$</title>

Default filters:

  • clean => Replaces special characters with HTML entities.
  • encode => Encodes string using encodeURLComponent.
  • date => Converts variable to a date.
  • number => Converts variable to a number.
  • boolean => Converts variable to a boolean.
  • json => Prints variable as JSON using JSON.stringify.