staticsaurus

a static file handler to be used in a router

example

import { serve } from "https://deno.land/[email protected]/http/server.ts";
import { Router } from "https://deno.land/x/brontoroutus/mod.ts";
import { serveFile } from "https://deno.land/x/staticsaurus/mod.ts";

const router = new Router();

// serves all files in the $PWD/public dir
router.get("/public/*", (request) => serveFile(request));

// allows hidden files to be served
router.get("/images", (request) => serveFile(request, {
  serveHiddenFiles: true
}));

// serves all files in the $PWD/public dir while the url request are being made to /images
router.get("/images", (request) => serveFile(request, {
  serveDir: "./public/"
}));
// same
router.get("/images", (request) => serveFile(request, {
  serveDir: "./public/images/"
}));

// only serves files ending in .png and .jpg 
router.get("/public", (request) => serveFile(request, {
  allowedExtensions: [".png", ".jpg"]
}));

// multiple options
router.get("/images", (request) => serveFile(request, {
  serveDir: "./public/images",
  allowedExtensions: [".png", ".jpg"]
}));
// or
router.get("/images", (request) => serveFile(request, {
  serveDir: "./public/images",
  allowedExtensions: [".png", ".jpg"]
  serveHiddenFiles: true
}));

serve(router.toHandler({}));

todo

[ ] serve files without an extension
[ ] generate etag
[ ] return 302 when client doesn't need to fetch file
[ ] ???

development

run tests with deno test --allow-all