Connect is a middleware framework for Node.js. It processes or decorates HTTP requests and responses to provide features such as session handling, authentication, asset management or compression.
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Proper way to remove middleware from the Express stack?
Is there a canonical way to remove middleware added with app.use from the stack?
It seems that it should be possible to just modify the app.stack array directly, but I wonder if there is a documented method I should consider first.
Brad
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How can I add CORS-Headers to a static connect server?
I am writing a little demo web server delivering static html,css and javascript.
The server looks like
(function () {
"use strict";
var http = require("http");
var connect = require('connect');
var app = connect()
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What is the correct way to "end" a request from express/connect middleware?
Assuming I have middleware such as this;
var express = require('express');
var app = express();
app.use(function (req, res, next) {
var host = "example.com";
if (req.host !== host) {
res.redirect(301, host + req.originalUrl);
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Node.js / Express.js - How to override/intercept res.render function?
I'm building a Node.js app with Connect/Express.js and I want to intercept the res.render(view, option) function to run some code before forwarding it on to the original render function.
app.get('/someUrl', function(req, res) {
res.render…
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in express.js, any way to capture request to both json and html in one function?
Does anybody know a way in express.js to capture requests in a single function for both html and json?
Essentially I want a single route for both /users and /users.json - like rails does with its routes -> controller.
That way, I can encapsulate…
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Difference between Express and Connect npm packages
I have been using express webservers since I started working on Node.js and a few days ago I came across this new (to me) web server, called connect.
Can anyone point out, what are the differences between the express and connect? When should we use…
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Change cookie expiration in Express
Because I didn't define a maxAge when calling expressServer.use(express.session({params})) the cookie's expiration is set as "Session".
I would like to add a "remember me" feature when logging in. If "remember me" is selected, the expiration will…
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What does the bodyParser() in connect middleware do?
I'm doing a tutorials on node.js, and the lesson is teaching me how to create a server using node. In the code below, what does the connect.bodyParser() line do?
var app = connect()
.use(connect.bodyParser())
.use(connect.static('public'))
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Middleware design pattern in Node.js: Connect
This question extends that of What is Node.js' Connect, Express and "middleware"?
I'm going the route of learning Javascript -> Node.js -> Connect -> Express -> ... in order to learn about using a modern web development stack. I have a background in…
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Using static(), staticCache(), and compress() node.js connect middleware
I have an Express 3.0 app and I'm trying to use the static(), staticCache(), and compress() middleware to serve and compress my static files. This is my current app.configure() function:
app.configure(function() {
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MongoDB: Error setting TTL index on collection : sessions
Initially this error message started appearing very infrequently, but started to appear more regularly and now appears 4/5 times I run my application.
I'm handling my session store with Mongo and as I understand it, the TTL index is used to make the…
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How to totally prevent HTTP 304 responses in Connect/Express static middleware?
At times during development, it would be really nice to prevent HTTP 304 responses (in favor of 200's), and cause the Connect/Express static middleware to read every response from the filesystem, rather than do any caching at all.
I have tried…
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Node.js - cannot find module
I'm using Node Boilerplate and it all worked fine until I decided create another project on top of it (in another dir).
Now I have exactly the same code base (this project AS IS) in two different folders. I can run one of it without any problems but…
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How to have a NodeJS/connect middleware execute after responde.end() has been invoked?
I would like to achieve something like this:
var c = require('connect');
var app = c();
app.use("/api", function(req, res, next){
console.log("request filter 1");
next();
});
app.use("/api", function(req, res, next){
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How does this work? Optional first argument used in Express (err, req, res, next) or (req, res, next)
With Express / Connect I can set up an middleware function in either of the formats:
function(req, res, next) // first argument will be a request
Or
function(err, req, res, next) // first argument will be an error
Stepping back from Express,…
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