How to use lite-server for nodejs application?

Question

I started a project using lite-server. So far I only used an index.html file and client-side Javascript, but now I want to add server-side JavaScript functionality. How can I configure lite-server to use server.js for routing? Using just node the command would be

node server.js

However I start my server like this:

lite-server

How can I specify that for example if '/someurl' is requested, the url gets resolved using server.js? I assume this can be done in bs-config.json as module.export like

module.exports = {
 server: {
    middleware: {
      // overrides the second middleware default with new settings
      })
    }
  }
};

What might the right definition for my case?

> Can I specify using server.js in package.json or bs-config.json? What do you mean by this? — Harshal Yeole, Aug 06 '18 at 06:17
You have pretty much everything covered here: https://github.com/johnpapa/lite-server — Harshal Yeole, Aug 06 '18 at 06:18

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 07 '18 at 00:39

Ok, I have solved it. Instead of using server.js, I have to define bs-config.js to handle the routing. That's my solution using express:

var express = require('express');
var app = express();

app.use(express.static('public'));

app.get('/', function (req, res) {
   res.sendFile( __dirname + "/src/" + "index.html" );
})

app.get('/admin', function (req, res) {
   res.sendFile( __dirname + "/src/" + "admin.html" );
})

app.get('/hello', function (req, res) {
   res.send('hello');
})

module.exports = {
  "server": {
    "baseDir": "src",
    "routes": {
      "/node_modules": "node_modules"
    },
    middleware: {
      1: app,
  },
},
port:3001,
};

By setting app as middleware on position 1, lite-server's default behaviour gets overwritten and requests get handled by express.

How to use lite-server for nodejs application?

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