Express.js - How to set a header to all responses

Question

I am using Express for web services and I need the responses to be encoded in utf-8.

I know I can do the following to each response:

response.setHeader('charset', 'utf-8'); 

Is there a clean way to set a header or a charset for all responses sent by the express application?

Answer 1

Just use a middleware statement that executes for all routes:

// a middleware with no mount path; gets executed for every request to the app app.use(function(req, res, next) {   res.setHeader('charset', 'utf-8')   next(); }); 

And, make sure this is registered before any routes that you want it to apply to:

app.use(...); app.get('/index.html', ...); 

Express middleware documentation here.