Express Static Middleware serves index.html automatically

Question

I'm not very familiar with NodeJS and started to work with it and Express. Now I'm getting the following content: I want to serve an index.html file but make some other things before that. But since I'm using app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/client/public')); a browser request does not affect the app.get("/") function. How do I solve that problem?

app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/client/src/css'));
app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/client/public'));

app.get('/', function (req, res) {
    console.log('###GET REQUEST received');
    console.log(req);
    res.sendFile(__dirname + '/index.html'); 
});

Thank you in advance!

Answer 1

Order matters. Put your app.get route prior to the Express.static declaration.

Answer 2

Or, disable the indexing.

express.static(path, {index: false})

index: sends the specified directory index file; set to false to disable directory indexing.

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