Any way to serve static html files from express without the extension?

Question

I would like to serve an html file without specifying it's extension. Is there any way I can do this without defining a route? For instance instead of

 /helloworld.html 

I would like to do just

 /helloworld 

Answer 1

you can just use extension option in express.static method .

app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, 'public'),{index:false,extensions:['html']})); 

Answer 2

A quick'n'dirty solution is to attach .html to requests that don't have a period in them and for which an HTML-file exists in the public directory:

var fs        = require('fs'); var publicdir = __dirname + '/public';  app.use(function(req, res, next) {   if (req.path.indexOf('.') === -1) {     var file = publicdir + req.path + '.html';     fs.exists(file, function(exists) {       if (exists)         req.url += '.html';       next();     });   }   else     next(); }); app.use(express.static(publicdir));