| # Ecstatic [](http://travis-ci.org/jfhbrook/node-ecstatic) [](https://codecov.io/github/jfhbrook/node-ecstatic?branch=master) |
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| A simple static file server middleware. Use it with a raw http server, |
| express/connect or on the CLI! |
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| # Examples: |
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| ## express 4.x |
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| ``` js |
| 'use strict'; |
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| const express = require('express'); |
| const ecstatic = require('../lib/ecstatic'); |
| const http = require('http'); |
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| const app = express(); |
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| app.use(ecstatic({ |
| root: `${__dirname}/public`, |
| showdir: true, |
| })); |
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| http.createServer(app).listen(8080); |
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| console.log('Listening on :8080'); |
| ``` |
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| ## stock http server |
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| ``` js |
| 'use strict'; |
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| const http = require('http'); |
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| const ecstatic = require('../lib/ecstatic')({ |
| root: `${__dirname}/public`, |
| showDir: true, |
| autoIndex: true, |
| }); |
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| http.createServer(ecstatic).listen(8080); |
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| console.log('Listening on :8080'); |
| ``` |
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| ### fall through |
| To allow fall through to your custom routes: |
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| ```js |
| ecstatic({ root: __dirname + '/public', handleError: false }) |
| ``` |
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| ## CLI |
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| ```sh |
| ecstatic ./public --port 8080 |
| ``` |
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| # Install: |
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| For using ecstatic as a library, just npm install it into your project: |
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| ```sh |
| npm install --save ecstatic |
| ``` |
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| For using ecstatic as a cli tool, either npm install it globally: |
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| ```sh |
| npm install ecstatic -g |
| ``` |
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| or install it locally and use npm runscripts to add it to your $PATH, or |
| reference it directly with `./node_modules/.bin/ecstatic`. |
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| # API: |
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| ## ecstatic(opts); |
| ## $ ecstatic [dir?] {options} --port PORT |
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| In node, pass ecstatic an options hash, and it will return your middleware! |
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| ```js |
| const opts = { |
| root: path.join(__dirname, 'public'), |
| baseDir: '/', |
| autoIndex: true, |
| showDir: true, |
| showDotfiles: true, |
| humanReadable: true, |
| hidePermissions: false, |
| si: false, |
| cache: 'max-age=3600', |
| cors: false, |
| gzip: true, |
| brotli: false, |
| defaultExt: 'html', |
| handleError: true, |
| serverHeader: true, |
| contentType: 'application/octet-stream', |
| weakEtags: true, |
| weakCompare: true, |
| handleOptionsMethod: false, |
| } |
| ``` |
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| If `opts` is a string, the string is assigned to the root folder and all other |
| options are set to their defaults. |
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| When running in CLI mode, all options work as above, passed in |
| [optimist](https://github.com/substack/node-optimist) style. `port` defaults to |
| `8000`. If a `dir` or `--root dir` argument is not passed, ecsatic will |
| serve the current dir. Ecstatic also respects the PORT environment variable. |
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| ### `opts.root` |
| ### `--root {root}` |
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| `opts.root` is the directory you want to serve up. |
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| ### `opts.port` |
| ### `--port {port}` |
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| In CLI mode, `opts.port` is the port you want ecstatic to listen to. Defaults |
| to 8000. This can be overridden with the `--port` flag or with the PORT |
| environment variable. |
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| ### `opts.baseDir` |
| ### `--baseDir {dir}` |
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| `opts.baseDir` is `/` by default, but can be changed to allow your static files |
| to be served off a specific route. For example, if `opts.baseDir === "blog"` |
| and `opts.root = "./public"`, requests for `localhost:8080/blog/index.html` will |
| resolve to `./public/index.html`. |
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| ### `opts.cache` |
| ### `--cache {value}` |
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| Customize cache control with `opts.cache` , if it is a number then it will set max-age in seconds. |
| Other wise it will pass through directly to cache-control. Time defaults to 3600 s (ie, 1 hour). |
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| If it is a function, it will be executed on every request, and passed the pathname. Whatever it returns, string or number, will be used as the cache control header like above. |
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| ### `opts.showDir` |
| ### `--no-showDir` |
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| Turn **off** directory listings with `opts.showDir === false`. Defaults to **true**. |
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| ### `opts.showDotfiles` |
| ### `--no-showDotfiles` |
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| Exclude dotfiles from directory listings with `opts.showDotfiles === false`. Defaults to **true**. |
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| ### `opts.humanReadable` |
| ### `--no-human-readable` |
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| If showDir is enabled, add human-readable file sizes. Defaults to **true**. |
| Aliases are `humanreadable` and `human-readable`. |
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| ### `opts.hidePermissions` |
| ### `--hide-permissions` |
| If hidePermissions is enabled, file permissions will not be displayed. Defaults to **false**. |
| Aliases are `hidepermissions` and `hide-permissions`. |
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| ### `opts.headers` |
| ### `--H {HeaderA: valA} [--H {HeaderB: valB}]` |
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| Set headers on every response. `opts.headers` can be an object mapping string |
| header names to string header values, a colon (:) separated string, or an array |
| of colon separated strings. |
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| `opts.H` and `opts.header` are aliased to `opts.headers` so that you can use |
| `-H` and `--header` options to set headers on the command-line like curl: |
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| ``` sh |
| $ ecstatic ./public -p 5000 -H 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *' |
| ``` |
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| ### `opts.si` |
| ### `--si` |
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| If showDir and humanReadable are enabled, print file sizes with base 1000 instead |
| of base 1024. Name is inferred from cli options for `ls`. Aliased to `index`, the |
| equivalent option in Apache. |
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| ### `opts.autoIndex` |
| ### `--no-autoindex` |
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| Serve `/path/index.html` when `/path/` is requested. |
| Turn **off** autoIndexing with `opts.autoIndex === false`. Defaults to **true**. |
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| ### `opts.defaultExt` |
| ### `--defaultExt {ext}` |
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| Turn on default file extensions with `opts.defaultExt`. If `opts.defaultExt` is |
| true, it will default to `html`. For example if you want a request to `/a-file` |
| to resolve to `./public/a-file.html`, set this to `true`. If you want |
| `/a-file` to resolve to `./public/a-file.json` instead, set `opts.defaultExt` to |
| `json`. |
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| ### `opts.gzip` |
| ### `--no-gzip` |
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| By default, ecstatic will serve `./public/some-file.js.gz` in place of |
| `./public/some-file.js` when the gzipped version exists and ecstatic determines |
| that the behavior is appropriate. If `./public/some-file.js.gz` is not valid |
| gzip, this will fall back to `./public/some-file.js`. You can turn this off |
| with `opts.gzip === false`. |
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| ### `opts.brotli` |
| ### `--brotli` |
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| Serve `./public/some-file.js.br` in place of `./public/some-file.js` when the |
| [brotli encoded](https://github.com/google/brotli) version exists and ecstatic |
| determines that the behavior is appropriate. If the request does not contain |
| `br` in the HTTP `accept-encoding` header, ecstatic will instead attempt to |
| serve a gzipped version (if `opts.gzip` is `true`), or fall back to |
| `./public.some-file.js`. Defaults to **false**. |
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| ### `opts.serverHeader` |
| ### `--no-server-header` |
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| Set `opts.serverHeader` to false in order to turn off setting the `Server` |
| header on all responses served by ecstatic. |
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| ### `opts.contentType` |
| ### `--content-type {type}` |
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| Set `opts.contentType` in order to change default Content-Type header value. |
| Defaults to **application/octet-stream**. |
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| ### `opts.mimeTypes` |
| ### `--mime-types {filename}` |
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| Add new or override one or more mime-types. This affects the HTTP Content-Type |
| header. Can either be a path to a |
| [`.types`](http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk/docs/conf/mime.types) |
| file or an object hash of type(s). |
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| ecstatic({ mimeTypes: { 'mime-type': ['file_extension', 'file_extension'] } }) |
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| ### `opts.handleError` |
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| Turn **off** handleErrors to allow fall-through with |
| `opts.handleError === false`, Defaults to **true**. |
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| ### `opts.weakEtags` |
| ### `--no-weak-etags` |
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| Set `opts.weakEtags` to false in order to generate strong etags instead of |
| weak etags. Defaults to **true**. See `opts.weakCompare` as well. |
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| ### `opts.weakCompare` |
| ### `--no-weak-compare` |
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| Turn off weakCompare to disable the weak comparison function for etag |
| validation. Defaults to **true**. See |
| https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt Section 13.3.3 for more details. |
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| ### `opts.handleOptionsMethod` |
| ### `--handle-options-method` |
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| Set handleOptionsMethod to true in order to respond to 'OPTIONS' calls with any standard/set headers. Defaults to **false**. Useful for hacking up CORS support. |
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| ### `opts.cors` |
| ### `--cors` |
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| This is a **convenience** setting which turns on `handleOptionsMethod` and sets the headers **Access-Control-Allow-Origin: \*** and **Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Authorization, Content-Type, If-Match, If-Modified-Since, If-None-Match, If-Unmodified-Since**. This *should* be enough to quickly make cross-origin resource sharing work between development APIs. More advanced usage can come either from overriding these headers with the headers argument, or by using the `handleOptionsMethod` flag and then setting headers "manually." Alternately, just do it in your app using separate middlewares/abstractions. |
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| Defaults to **false**. |
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| ## middleware(req, res, next); |
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| This works more or less as you'd expect. |
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| ### ecstatic.showDir(folder); |
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| This returns another middleware which will attempt to show a directory view. Turning on auto-indexing is roughly equivalent to adding this middleware after an ecstatic middleware with autoindexing disabled. |
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| # Tests: |
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| Ecstatic has a fairly extensive test suite. You can run it with: |
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| ```sh |
| $ npm test |
| ``` |
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| # Contribute: |
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| Without outside contributions, ecstatic would wither and die! Before |
| contributing, take a quick look at the contributing guidelines in |
| [./CONTRIBUTING.md](./CONTRIBUTING.md) . They're relatively painless, I promise. |
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| # License: |
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| MIT. See LICENSE.txt. For contributors, see CONTRIBUTORS.md |