Can I have koa-static serve assets at a custom (e.g., /static/) path?

Question

The docs at https://github.com/koajs/static and my personal experience trying out koa-static lead me to believe that you can only serve files from the root URL of your app.

For example:

app.use(serve('./some/dir/'));

Given the above use of serve, the URL to access a file ./some/dir/something.txt would be localhost:3000/something.txt. There doesn't seem to be a way to configure my app such that the same file (and all other files in the same dir) is served at localhost:3000/static/something.txt instead.

I'm new to Node and to Koa, so I've just begun to dive into this and I'm probably missing something really obvious.

I tried using koa-route to achieve this:

app.use(route.get('/static/*'), serve(__dirname + '/some/dir'));

But upon requesting /static/something.txt I was met with the following:

  TypeError: Cannot read property 'apply' of undefined
      at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/me/example/src/node_modules/koa-route/index.js:34:18)
      at GeneratorFunctionPrototype.next (native)
      at onFulfilled (/Users/me/example/src/node_modules/koa/node_modules/co/index.js:64:19)
      at /Users/me/example/src/node_modules/koa/node_modules/co/index.js:53:5
      at Object.co (/Users/me/example/src/node_modules/koa/node_modules/co/index.js:49:10)
      at Object.toPromise (/Users/me/example/src/node_modules/koa/node_modules/co/index.js:117:63)
      at next (/Users/me/example/src/node_modules/koa/node_modules/co/index.js:98:29)
      at onFulfilled (/Users/me/example/src/node_modules/koa/node_modules/co/index.js:68:7)
      at /Users/me/example/src/node_modules/koa/node_modules/co/index.js:53:5
      at Object.co (/Users/me/example/src/node_modules/koa/node_modules/co/index.js:49:10)

Answer 1

To relocate middleware to another part of your app url-wise, you can use koa-mount.

'use strict';
const koa = require('koa');
const mount = require('koa-mount');

const app = koa();
app.use(function* () { this.body = 'Hello, world'; });
app.use(mount('/foo', function*() { this.body = 'Hello, foo'; }));

app.listen(3000);

curl localhost:3000
> 'Hello, world'
curl localhost:3000/foo
> 'Hello, foo'

koa-router itself does not support regex paths or parameter matching.

Answer 2

Sure you can. And as the accepted answer says, the trick is using koa-mount along with koa-static. Though I don't understand why he doesn't provide an example with actual static files. This works for me (in Koa2):

.use(serve('public'))
.use(mount('/static', serve('static')))

Both folders (public and static) are in my project's root. But the first one is served when the user access to /, whereas the second one is served when they go to /static. That's all.